Analysis of centrifugal annular reactor with radial flow

✍ Scribed by Naseem Yacoub; David Moalem Maron

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 545 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(84)80029-9

✦ Synopsis

model for centrifugal annular catalytic reactor is presented. The gas flows radially through the annulus while the inner cylinder is rotated to produce the centrifugal effect. A catalytic consecutive reaction takes place at the external surface of the annulus. Tl-q reactor is aimed to utilize the fact that heavier substances concentrate on the external walls of rotating reactors more than the lighter ones, so as to improve the conversion and yield of the desired intermediate product in consecutive reactions.

The reaction performance is examined for various reaction kinetics, angular velocity and gas flow rate.

The gas flow direction (inward or outward) is also discussed.

It is shown that for a given reaction and reactor geometry, an optimal angular velocity exists, where the reaction conversion is maximum. It is also shown that the maximum conversion is higher for inward flow than for outward flow and it is obtained at lower angular velocity.