SMCA—the real optimal operation of a multistage adiabatic fixed-bed reactor

✍ Scribed by Chong Zheng

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 534 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(86)87098-1

✦ Synopsis

general rule and a straightforward approach of the real optimal operation of a multistage adiabatic fixed-bed reactor (MAFBR) for a single reaction system, namely, the stagewise maximum conversion approach (SMCA), were derived based on the analysis of the operation of a Fauser-Montecatini type, five-stage ammonia synthesis reactor. The SMCA can he implemented in reactors which have ageing catalysts and matdistributed gas. The SMCA has heen applied efficiently to industrial SO1 oxidation and NH3 synthesis plants. Suggestions On the design of a new MAFBR are made.