Modeling and simulation of a small-scale trickle bed reactor for sugar hydrogenation

Davide Durante, Teuvo Kilpiö, Timo Suominen, Victor Sifontes Herrera, Johan Wärnå, Paolo Canu, Tapio Salmi

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Laboratory-scale trickle bed reactor was modeled and simulated, taking into account axial dispersion, gas–liquid, liquid–solid and internal mass transfer as well as catalyst deactivation under isothermal conditions. For catalyst particles dynamic and steady state models were developed, including both mass and heat balances. Catalyst deactivation was included in the model by using the final activity concept for the catalyst particles. A well-working numerical algorithm (method of lines) was applied for solving the reactor model with Matlab 7.1 and the results followed experimental trends very well. The steady-state reactor model was based on simultaneous solution of mass balances. The aim was to illustrate how these parabolic partial differential equations could be solved with a step-by-step calculation for a selected geometry. The final model verification was done against experimental data from the hydrogenation of arabinose to arabitol on a ruthenium catalyst.
OriginalspråkOdefinierat/okänt
Sidor (från-till)22–35
TidskriftComputers and Chemical Engineering
Volym66
DOI
StatusPublicerad - 2014
MoE-publikationstypA1 Tidskriftsartikel-refererad

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