Non-isothermal chemical reaction in porous catalysts

✍ Scribed by E.E. Petersen

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1962
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 714 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(62)80077-3

✦ Synopsis

A method of analysis is presented to obtain the asymptotic form of the conservation equations used to describe non-isothermal chemical reaction in porous catalysts. The equations for a system involving the general simple chemical reaction contain several parameters, among which is a generalized form of the Thiele parameter, h. The other parameters contain terms related to the thermal effects of the reaction, the transport properties, and the functional form of the rate expression. The solutions presented which are asymptotic in /I have the advantage in most cases of indicating how the parameters influence the magnitude of the effectiveness factor and its dependence on h. The useful range of the solution is for valuesof h > 3.