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Structural and Operational Optimality of Adsorptive Reactors
Author(s) -
Hussainy Mamoon,
Agar David W.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
chemical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-4125
pISSN - 0930-7516
DOI - 10.1002/ceat.201600197
Subject(s) - chlorine , chemistry , process engineering , claus process , process (computing) , sulfur , adsorption , reaction conditions , chemical engineering , waste management , computer science , catalysis , organic chemistry , engineering , hydrogen sulfide , operating system
Adsorptive reactors represent a promising genre of multifunctional reactors combining the highly compatible adsorptive and reactive functionalities. Although they offer multiple benefits to the overall process flowsheet, overcoming the low space time yields, which are an inherent drawback of their cyclic operation, and unwanted functionality interference remain a challenge. The potential of temperature profiling to expedite the macrostructuring of adsorptive reactors for performance optimization is presented. Two industrially relevant reactions have been investigated as test cases: the Claus reaction for recovering sulfur from acid gas and the Deacon reaction for the plant‐internal recycling of chlorine via HCl oxidation.