phoRex & QY photoreactor - Monte Carlo ray tracing in MATLAB® & quantum yield measurements

The data set comprises (a) all CAD files that are needed to print an isophotonic photoreactor for the precise determination of quantum yields in gas, liquid, and multi-phase photoreactions and (b) a MATLAB® toolbox named phoRex that allows the determination of spectral radiation transport efficiencies (= transport efficiencies from the light source of the isophotonic photoreactor into the reaction volume) as well as other radiation transport related performance metrices via a Monte Carlo ray tracing approach. For details on the reactor design and the simulation environment please refer to the corresponding publication (DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2022.139204).
The toolbox requires a working MATLAB® installation (2018 or later) including the MATLAB parallel computing toolbox. Installation of the toolbox is in accordance with the standard MATLAB® procedure for the installation of new toolboxes.
After installation, phoRex provides an environment for Monte Carlo ray tracing simulations mapping radiation transport in 3D in channel-like geometries, for instance photoreactors. For the simulation of the isophotonic photoreactor a comprehensive live script example is given with the file example.mlx comprised in the toolbox. The example guides through the usage of the provided code in the context of quantum yield determination using the proposed isophotonic photoreactor.
Further, the comprised pre-processing script preProcessQY.m lines out how simulations are set up in the provided Monte Carlo ray tracing environment. This code example can be employed to understand how to set up own simulation cases for other use cases than the simulation of the isophotonic photoreactor proposed for the accurate determination of quantum yields.
For detailed information on the code structure of the Monte Carlo ray tracing approach itself, the author refers to the extensively commented source code given with the class definitions of the toolbox.