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Improved Design of the Lurgi Reactor for Methanol Synthesis Industry
Author(s) -
Walid Belabbas Abou Bakr Tariq,
Hassiba Benyounes,
Boumediene Haddou,
Weifeng Shen
Publication year - 2018
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.201700551
Subject(s) - methanol , yield (engineering) , chemistry , catalysis , reactor design , process (computing) , process engineering , chemical engineering , organic chemistry , thermodynamics , nuclear engineering , engineering , computer science , physics , operating system
Current studies are devoted to promote the production yield of the methanol synthesis process for treating large feed capacities in Algerian methanol manufacture industry by designing new reactor technologies. In order to achieve a high yield of methanol, the performance of methanol synthesis is improved by substituting the quench reactor by a new Lurgi reactor. The design of operating parameters of the Lurgi reactor involves the effect of CO 2 injection on methanol production yield and the catalyst deactivation. The simulation results demonstrate that under the same industrial operating conditions the conversion rate of reactants increases from 23 % in the quench reactor to 37 % in the Lurgi reactor and the methanol yield can be increased by 33 % when substituting the quench reactor by the Lurgi reactor