A simple additivity relation for analysis of heterogeneous catalytic reactors with first order reaction

✍ Scribed by Jean-Marc Engasser; Csaba Horvath

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 363 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(74)80001-1

✦ Synopsis

An isothermal heterogeneous reactor with first order kinetics is characterized by two virtual maximum efficiencies, JV"~,. and JV~,, which are readily determined from the appropriate kinetic and transport parameters. The actual efficiency of the reactor, which is related to the conversion, X, by X = 1 -edN, can be accurately approximated as N-' = j\r;' + X& The overall additivity relation offers a simple approach either to predict the conversion or to extract the kinetic or transport parameters when the reactor behavior is affected by both reaction and diffusion.