Modeling and Simulation Study of an Industrial Radial Moving Bed Reactor for Propane Dehydrogenation Process

• Main Authors: Chin, S. Y., Anwaruddin, Hisyam, Haniif, Prasetiawan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter 2016
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/16818/1/%5BInternational%20Journal%20of%20Chemical%20Reactor%20Engineering%5D%20Modeling%20and%20Simulation%20Study%20of%20an%20Industrial%20Radial%20Moving%20Bed%20Reactor%20for%20Propane%20Dehydrogenation%20Process.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/16818/; https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ijcre.2016.14.issue-1/ijcre-2014-0148/ijcre-2014-0148.xml

An accurate model is required to optimize the propane dehydrogenation reaction carried out in the radial moving bed reactors (RMBR). The present study modeled the RMBR using a plug flow reactor model incorporated with kinetic models expressed in simple power-law model. Catalyst activity and cok...