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Effect of fouling on stability of adiabatic packed bed reactors
Author(s) -
Ervin Michael A.,
Luss Dan
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.690160620
Subject(s) - fouling , packed bed , adiabatic process , chemistry , chemical engineering , waste management , chromatography , mechanics , thermodynamics , engineering , physics , membrane , biochemistry
The effect of catalyst fouling on the stability and operation of adiabatic packed bed reactors was investigated for two poisoning mechanisms. The effect of fouling was found to be most predominant for packed beds in which nonunique pseudo steady states can exist. Fouling may cause the reactor to misbehave suddenly, with a violent temperature rise, after a long period of pacific operation.