2021
This report briefly reviews the use of miniaturized or micro-fluidized bed reactors to study reaction kinetics, be it intrinsic or not. The option to add inert dilution to the catalyst bed is included. Then it focuses on the development of a set of criteria to verify to what extent intrinsic reaction kinetics can be extracted from a given fluidized bed set-up, focusing on gas-solid fluidized beds and catalytic reactions. The set of criteria has been implemented in an Excel sheet and used in two case studies, for an endothermic and an exothermic reaction respectively.