Fischer-Tropsch synthesis is an important chemical process for the production of liquid fuels and olefins. In recent years, the abundant availability of natural gas and the increasing demand of olefins, diesel, and waxes have led to a high interest to further develop this process. A mathematical model of a slurry membrane reactor used for syngas polymerization was developed to simulate and compare the maximum yields and operating conditions in the reactor with that in a conventional slurry reactor. The carbon polymerization was studied from a modeling point of view in a slurry reactor with a water permeable membrane and a conventional slurry reactor. Simulation results show that different parameters affect syngas conversion and carbon product distribution, such as the hydrogen to carbon monoxide ratio, and the membrane parameters such as membrane permeance. 相似文献
Recently,Fischer-Tropsch synthesis(FTS) has become an interesting technology because of its potential role in producing biofuels via Biomassto-Liquids(BTL) processes.In Fischer-Tropsch(FT) section,biomass-derived syngas,mainly composed of a mixture of carbon monoxide(CO) and hydrogen(H2),is converted into various forms of hydrocarbon products over a catalyst at specified temperature and pressure.Fixed-bed reactors are typically used for these processes as conventional FT reactors.The fixed-bed or packed-bed type reactor has its drawbacks,which are heat transfer limitation,i.e.a hot spot problem involved highly exothermic characteristics of FT reaction,and mass transfer limitation due to the condensation of liquid hydrocarbon products occurred on catalyst surface.This work is initiated to develop a new chemical reactor design in which a better distribution of gaseous reactants and hydrocarbon products could be achieved,and led to higher throughput and conversion.The main goal of the research is the enhancement of a fixed-bed reactor,focusing on the application of KenicsTM static mixer insertion in the tubular packed-bed reactor.Two FTS experiments were carried out using two reactors i.e.,with and without static mixer insertion within catalytic beds.The modeled syngas used was a mixed gas composed of H2/CO in 2:1 molar ratio that was fed at the rate of 30mL(STP)min1(GHSV≈136mL g1 cat h1) into the fixed Ru supported aluminum catalyst bed of weight 13.3g.The reaction was carried out at 180℃ and atmospheric pressure continuously for 36h for both experiments.Both transient and steady-state conversions(in terms of time on stream) were reported.The results revealed that the steady-state CO conversion for the case using the static mixer was approximately 3.5 times higher than that of the case without static mixer.In both cases,the values of chain growth probability of hydrocarbon products(α) for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis were 0.92 and 0.89 for the case with and without static mixer,respectively. 相似文献
Summary The enzymes a-amylase, invertase and glucoamylase were immobilized on acid activated montmorillonite using two techniques,
viz. adsorption and covalent binding, and their activities were tested in a batch and packed-bed reactor and were compared. The
packed-bed reactor showed an improved performance for all immobilized enzymes, which was attributed to lowering of diffusional
restrictions to mass transfer. Lower activity in case of batch reactor for immobilized invertase was due to a combined effect
of loss of native conformation of enzyme on account of immobilization and mass transfer resistances due to improper diffusion
of substrate to the active site of enzyme. For immobilized glucoamylase, the packed-bed reactor demonstrated exceptionally
high activity that was very close to the free enzyme. Covalently bound glucoamylase showed higher activity than the free enzyme. 相似文献
A fluidized bed reactor was designed, constructed, and tested for handling microencapsulated urease. The working volume of
the reactor was 10 mL, with a minimum fluidization velocity of 7.7×10−5 m/s. An even suspension of the microcapsules was obtained at fluid velocities between 1.5×10−4 and 6.0×10−4 m/s without breakage of the shear-sensitive microcapsules. The mixing behavior in the reactor was evaluated using pulse input
tracer experiments and the hydrolysis rates of urea in continuous flow experiments were evaluated under various operating
conditions. 相似文献
A single immobilized enzyme nylon tube reactor was produced incorporating a four enzyme system for the analysis of creatinine.
The enzyme activity ratios in the coupling solution used to prepare the reactor were found to be of extreme importance in
governing the activity of the latter.
The reactor was incorporated into a continuous flow analysis system used to assay creatinine in urine samples and the results
were correlated with a manual technique employing the same enzyme system in solution.
The precision, correlation, high specificity, simplicity, and speed of the analysis were concluded to be factors in favor
of the method's suitability for urine creatinine determinations. 相似文献
Micro reactor technology was successfully applied in the palladium catalysed C-N cross-coupling reaction between 4-bromotoluene and piperidine. Excellent conversions and selectivities were obtained without any by-product formation in continuous reactor. 相似文献
The anaerobic treatment of soft drink wastewater (SDW) was studied in two laboratory reactors—a 1.8-L UASB reactor and a 3-L
hybrid reactor-sludge bed containing a layer of polyurethane in the upper part, at 35°C. The highest organic loading rates
(OLR) achieved were 13 and 16.5 g COD/L · D for hybrid and UASB reactors, respectively, with the treatment efficiency of about
80% for both reactors. Despite the higher treatment productivity achieved for the UASB reactor, its lower ability to generate
a sufficient level of alkalinity led to difficulties in maintaining a stable operation performance. Therefore, the hybrid
reactor seems to be indicated for OLR higher than 10 g COD/L · d and HRT lower than 1 D, from the point of view of reliability
of these two systems.
Both reactors can treat the SDW with pH influent up to 11.0. The feeding of reactors with higher pH influent values led to
their quick failure because of alkali shock. The duration of the recovery period after alkali shock was about 1.5-2 mo. 相似文献
Over the past 5 years, interest in the miniaturisation of chemical synthesis has grown rapidly, however in order to facilitate transfer of the technology from its current position as a research tool to industrial applications, a core understanding of the challenges associated with transferring reactions from the macro to the micro domain is required. This paper therefore aims to broach this problem by investigating the application of micro reactors to a range of commonly employed synthetic reactions including acylation, aldol, alkylation, 1,4-conjugate addition (Michael addition) and the Knoevenagel condensation. Comparison of the results obtained with traditional batch techniques enable us to highlight some of the advantages associated with micro reaction technology. 相似文献
A novel stopped flow reactor system is described in the current work, along with the underlying design philosophy. While the concept of stopped flow technology is not recent, this system is the first to be designed with the objective of studying particle morphology, and to work at extremely short (40 ms) residence times. It is shown that traditional chemical engineering principles are required to properly design and operate this type of reactor, and that when correctly design, it is a very flexible tool for the study of nascent polymerisation of olefins.