4.5 Process design for integration of a photo-microreactor and adsorption for the isomerization of cis-cyclooctene in totrans-cyclooctene
After optimizing each sub process, i.e. photoisomerisation and adsorption, in this section, the process configuration for photoisomerisation of cis into trans -cyclooctene is presented for three different cases. These three cases were experimentally tested. The model for the adsorption column that was presented earlier in this paper, can be used to estimate saturation time and the operational parameters such as the temperature for the adsorption of trans -cyclooctene. Later in the text the validity of the model as described in section 3.3 is confirmed with the experimental results.