Publications by Charalampos Mantelis

The important role of pressure in supercritical fluid process development revealed by reaction calorimetry

The technique of reaction calorimetry adapted for use with reactions in supercritical fluids was used to study some safety aspects of the free-radical dispersion polymerization of methyl methacrylate in scCO2. The reaction heat rate profile was found to ch ...

Wiley-Blackwell2009

Optimization of reaction calorimetry for monitoring chemical reactions in supercritical fluids

Charalampos Mantelis

The PhD thesis deals with the optimization of the reaction calorimetry technique to monitor chemical reactions in supercritical fluids. The aim is to develop this thermal analysis technique to monitor the heat released by a chemical reaction in a high pres ...

EPFL2008

Supercritical Reaction Calorimetry: Versatile Tool for Measuring Heat Transfer Properties and Monitoring Chemical Reactions in Supercritical Fluids

Thierry Meyer, Charalampos Mantelis

The heat flow reaction calorimetry technique was developed for reactions with supercrit. fluids and was applied to monitor the free-radical dispersion polymn. of Me methacrylate in supercrit. carbon dioxide (scCO2). The main math. equation for the calorime ...

2008

Optimization of reaction calorimetry with supercritical fluids: A complete term-by-term analysis of the heat flow equation

Thierry Meyer, Charalampos Mantelis

A complete anal. of the heat flow equation in reaction calorimetry with supercrit. fluids is presented. An esp. developed reaction calorimeter is employed to study the challenges introduced by the supercrit. state of the reaction mixt. and the particularit ...

2008

Reaction monitoring of the MMA polymerization at marginal dispersion stability

Thierry Meyer, Charalampos Mantelis

The free-radical dispersion polymn. of Me methacrylate was studied using the reaction calorimetry technique. An esp. developed calorimeter for use with supercrit. fluids was employed and a set of expts. was explicitly designed to isolate the effect of the ...

Wiley-Blackwell2008

Is heat transfer governing chemical reactions in supercritical fluids?

Thierry Meyer, Frédéric Lavanchy, Charalampos Mantelis

A high pressure reactor calorimeter was developed to study chem. reactions in supercrit. fluids. Non-dimensional anal. of the heat transfer mechanism in the calorimeter verifies the application of the Nusselt correlation in scCO2. The reactor's cover and f ...

2007

Temperature-induced morphology control in the polymer- foaming process

Thierry Meyer, Charalampos Mantelis

Supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) is a promising foaming agent for the production of polymeric foams, representing an environmentally friendly alternative for the foaming agents currently used. During the expansion phase of the scCO2-foaming process, te ...

2007

Dispersion polymerization of methyl methacrylate in supercritical carbon dioxide: control of molecular weight distribution by adjusting particle surface area

Thierry Meyer, Charalampos Mantelis

Expts. of Me methacrylate dispersion polymn. are carried out in a reaction calorimeter using PDMS-mMA (methacrylate-terminated polydimethylsiloxane) as surfactant. Different stabilizer concns. from 0 to 10 wt% with respect to monomer have been considered i ...

2007

Free-radical dispersion polymerization of methyl methacrylate in supercritical carbon dioxide: a parametric analysis with reaction calorimetry

Thierry Meyer, Sophie Fortini, Charalampos Mantelis, Raphaël Barbey

In this study, the application of reaction calorimetry, an efficient tool to obtain kinetic and safety data, is presented on the free radical dispersion polymn. of MMA in scCO2. The effect of three major parameters with respect to the reaction evolution ar ...

2007

Supercritical reaction calorimetry: A novel route to supercritical fluid reaction monitoring

Thierry Meyer, Frédéric Lavanchy, Charalampos Mantelis

Supercrit. fluids (SCFs) were intensively studied in the last decade as alternative, environment-friendly benign reaction solvents. A new anal. technique was derived from a combination of classical heat flow reaction calorimetry and the supercrit. fluid te ...

2005