Gas-Liquid Mass Transfer in a Bench-Scale Trickle Bed Reactor used for Benzene Hydrogenation

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (10) ◽  
pp. 1410-1417 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Metaxas ◽  
N. Papayannakos
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Benzene Hydrogenation ◽  
Trickle Bed Reactor ◽  
Bench Scale ◽  
Liquid Mass ◽  
Liquid Mass Transfer ◽  
Trickle Bed

scholarly journals Using modeling to select catalyst dilution methods for mass transfer intensification in lab gas–liquid fixed-bed reactors

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Alberto Servia
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Heterogeneous Catalyst ◽  
Fixed Bed ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Inert Material ◽  
Benzene Hydrogenation ◽  
Liquid Mass ◽  
Fixed Bed Reactors ◽  
Heat Effects ◽  
Liquid Mass Transfer

Heterogeneous catalyst testing methodology at the lab scale must provide intrinsic kinetics data for reactor design purposes as well as the intrinsic activity ranking during catalyst screening in the field of refining and petrochemistry. The significant downscaling of the past century coupled with the increasingly active catalytic formulations may introduce considerable momentum, mass and heat effects in experiments at small scale. Catalyst dilution has emerged as one versatile and robust way to reduce the impact of momentum and heat effects on heterogeneous catalyst testing. This paper presents a methodology based on global phenomena and catalyst dilution modeling to assess and optimize reactor loading techniques for specific problems. More particularly, the aim is to provide catalysts developers and kinetics experts with concrete guidelines for intensifying gas-liquid mass transfer in lab gas–liquid fixed-bed reactors through catalyst dilution. The methodology is applied to the kinetics determination of the oil residue Hydrodemetallation (HDM) and to the screening of catalysts for benzene hydrogenation. Layered dilution, consisting on the split of the catalyst in two beds separated by an intermediate bed containing an inert material of the same size as the catalyst, poorly improves gas–liquid mass transfer. Uniform dilution, based on the direct mixture of catalyst and inert material of the same size, significantly enhances gas–liquid mass transfer as the reactant local consumption per reactor unit volume is strongly reduced. Combinations of both abovementioned dilution techniques can be used with fast and/or high stoichiometric factor chemical systems operated at conversions higher than 70%. A new criterion is proposed to calculate the minimum dilution factor to guarantee negligible gas–liquid mass transfer limitations as a function of conversion, external mass transfer and global pseudo second-order kinetics.

Solid-liquid mass transfer to hollow pellets in a trickle bed

1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 1895-1903 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Brad Sims ◽  
Fred G. Schulz ◽  
Dan Luss
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Liquid Mass ◽  
Liquid Mass Transfer ◽  
Trickle Bed ◽  
Solid Liquid

Gas-liquid mass transfer in trickle-bed reactors: Gas-side mass transfer

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 589-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ion Iliuta ◽  
Maria C. Iliuta ◽  
Fernand C. Thyrion
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Liquid Mass ◽  
Trickle Bed Reactors ◽  
Liquid Mass Transfer ◽  
Trickle Bed
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