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Continuous hydrogenation of vegetable oils in reactors equipped with static mixers
Author(s) -
Rusnac Lucian M.,
Floarea Octavian,
Vladea Radu V.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02636073
Subject(s) - slurry , process engineering , catalysis , mass transfer , column (typography) , materials science , mixing (physics) , soybean oil , process (computing) , waste management , chemical engineering , chemistry , chromatography , engineering , mechanical engineering , organic chemistry , composite material , computer science , physics , connection (principal bundle) , quantum mechanics , operating system , food science
Continuous hydrogenation of industrially refined soybean oil with Harshaw Ni catalyst was achieved in a slurry column equipped with Sulzer SMV motionless mixers. The influence of the operating parameters (temperature, pressure, catalyst concentration and gas velocity) was investigated. The presumption that, in this equipment, the liquid‐solid mass transfer limits the rate of the process is in good agreement with the experimental data.