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Design aspects

• Rate of Gas absorption per unit volume

• Transport to the catalyst pellet

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Design aspects
• Diffusion and Reaction inside the catalyst

• For first order system,

• All the steps are in series, So we can write

• Trying to eliminate Cb and Cs & simplifying:

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Design Aspects
• Considering the resistances to gas absorption, external
mass transfer to surface and internal diffusion/surface
reaction

• A plot of Ci/RA against 1/m gives the combined resistance


and gas absorption resistance

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Distinguishing resistances
• Identification of the controlling resistances important
• Gas absorption controlling Reaction & diffusion control

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• For very Small particles

• For moderate particles,

• For moderate to large particles

• Kc dependency on particle size will be dependent on


whether fluid is stagnant or in complete motion
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• For stagnant liquids,

• For liquids in motion,

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Stepwise procedure to determine controlling
resistance

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Improvements in reactor performance

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Numerical problem
• For catalytic hydrogenation of methyl linoleate, following
data was generated:

• Estimate different resistances

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Solution steps
• Calculate Ci/Ri and 1/m
• Slope for particle size 40 micron will give the combined
resistance
• Calculate the gas absorption resistance for any one data
set, typically it is independent of the particle size
• Use the same absorption resistance to calculate the
combined resistance for particle size of 80 micron
• Check the ratio of combined resistance, if same as particle
diameters then the internal diffusion resistance is controlling

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Same conditions as previous problem, so the
resistances will be same.

rb = 0.08 min
rcr for 80 micron particle = 0.28 min . Kg/m3
rcr for 40 micron particle = 0.14 min . Kg/m3

Design equation for CSTR:

Rearranging:

m = 3.95 Kg/m3 208


Heat Transfer Aspects in Packed bed
reactors

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Introduction to non-isothermal reactor design

Material Balance

Graphical solution of two


equations

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