声明
摘要
ABSTRACT
NOMENCLATURE
Chapter 1.Introduction and Literature review
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Brief information for Ethylene Oxide properties
1.3 Ethylene oxide in industry and its importance
1.3.1 Synthesis of ethylene oxide through ethylene ehlorohydrin
1.3.2 Catalytic oxidation of ethylene
1.3.3 Homogeneous gas-phase oxidation of ethylene in ethylene oxide
1.3.4 Uses of ethylene oxide
1.4 Process description
1.4.1 Direct oxidation process
1.5 Optimization theory
Chapter 2 Reactor conception
2.1 Modeling of Fixed-bed Reactor
2.1.1 Adiabatic reactors
2.1.2 Tubular reactors
2.1.3 The combined reactors
2.2 Process technology consideration
2.3 Ethylene oxide reactor model assumptions
2.3.1 Catalyst deactivation
2.3.2 Solution Procedure
Chapter 3 Model development for ethylene oxide process
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Reaction Chemistry and Mechanism
3.3 Kinetics
3.3.1 Flat velocity profile
3.4 Orthogonal collocation
3.4.1 Orthogonal collocation for axial derivatives
4.1 Model validation
4.2 Catalyst deactivation model
4.2.1 Catalyst deactivation model validation
4.3 Sensitivity Analysis
Chapter 5 Conclusion
References
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Author’s resume