Some comments on models for Fischer-Tropsch reaction in slurry bubble column reactors

✍ Scribed by Dragomir B. Bukur

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 496 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(83)80161-4

✦ Synopsis

The effect of some model parameters on experimental data analysis and prediction of reactor performance for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction in a bubble column slurry reactor has been studied, using the experimental data of Schlesinger et af.[fi, and the operating conditions similar to the ones used in the Rheinpreussen-Koppers demonstration plant unit as examples. It is shown that the liquid phase mixing and the gas volume contraction have a strong effect on estimation of kinetic parameters and prediction of the reactor berformance at high values of hydrogen conversion. The implications of these findings on the previous analysis by Satterfield and Hti[l], and Deckwer et al.[2] are discussed.