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3D CFD Simulation of Reaction Cells, Cooling Cells, and Manifolds of a Flatbed Reactor for CO 2 Methanation
Author(s) -
Ghaib Karim
Publication year - 2020
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.202000254
Subject(s) - methanation , computational fluid dynamics , substitute natural gas , process engineering , materials science , flow (mathematics) , stoichiometry , heat exchanger , nuclear engineering , environmental science , chemical engineering , mechanics , mechanical engineering , chemistry , catalysis , engineering , syngas , physics , organic chemistry
The methanation of CO 2 has attracted great interest in recent years as a technology to generate renewable synthetic natural gas and to recycle CO 2 from different sectors. The actual development state of a flatbed reactor for the methanation of pure stoichiometric feed gas is presented. Additionally, computational fluid dynamics (CFD)‐based design strategies are introduced which can be applied for the development and optimization of different processing units. The results of the reactor development demonstrate a good heat exchange and flow distribution in the reactor.