Reactor Performance Assessment Using Experimental Studies and Multiscale Modeling: Liquid Phase Ethylene Production By Hydrogenation of Acetylene

摘要

Trickle bed and two-phase upflow packed bed reactors have found extensive applications in petroleum, petrochemical, chemical and environmental industries especially for processes involving complex mechanisms. Assessing the reactor performance for these reactors needs extensive experimentation complemented by validation by a reliable mathematical model at different scales. Various factors like incomplete catalyst wetting, liquid maldistribution, interphase mass transfer, intraparticle diffusion are necessary to predict the reactor performance.