The invention provides a photochemical reactor with a total reflection characteristic, a method and a
system, and relates to the technical field of
photochemistry. According to the invention, the
light source is aligned with the direction of the reaction fluid, and the
light energy is restrained in the
reaction system by utilizing the total reflection condition, so that an optical
waveguide structure which is propagated in order is formed, and the problem of serious loss caused by disordered
light energy scattering, device wall absorption and transmission in the prior art is fundamentally solved. And due to the ordered and efficient utilization of
light energy, the
reaction rate is higher under the same
light intensity, or higher
light intensity can be used under the small
pipe diameter, so that the reaction efficiency is greatly improved, and the reaction time is shortened. The structure of the reactor is only a simple tubular structure, no complex
optical fiber coupling or nesting channel is needed,
linear amplification can be achieved through simple series connection or parallel connection, and no obvious bad amplification effect exists. The two total reflection
modes can be flexibly selected to adapt to reaction systems with different refractive indexes, the applicability is wide, the structure is simple, the
energy consumption is low, and the requirements of
green chemistry are met.