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Optimal switching policies for fixed bed catalytic reactors in series
Author(s) -
Miertschin G. N.,
Jackson R.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
the canadian journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1939-019X
pISSN - 0008-4034
DOI - 10.1002/cjce.5450490415
Subject(s) - catalysis , series (stratigraphy) , function (biology) , control theory (sociology) , order (exchange) , chemical engineering , packed bed , process engineering , materials science , chemistry , computer science , engineering , economics , geology , organic chemistry , finance , control (management) , biology , evolutionary biology , artificial intelligence , paleontology
It frequently occurs in catalytic reforming that several fixed bed catalytic reactors are run in series. Periodically a bed must be removed and regenerated while a previously regenerated bed is used in its place. An algorithm that finds which bed to remove and how to order the remaining beds and the previously regenerated bed so that some suitable objective function is optimized is presented for the case where the catalyst decays uniformly down the length of each reactor.