Optimal design and operation of an industrial fluidized catalytic cracking reactor

Optimal Process Control and Operation of an Industrial Heat Integrated Fluid Catalytic Cracking Plant Using Model Predictive Control

Nowadays, the optimal control of a heat integrated industrial plant becomes one of the most important research areas in the chemical industry. There are at least two main reasons why this topic is interesting: first, the reduction of production costs applying the heat integration techniques and second, process optimization through advanced control alternatives, when taking into account the impr...

Investigation of Temperature and Flow Fields in an Alternative Design of Industrial Cracking Furnaces Using CFD

Hydrogen production by catalytic cracking of methane over nickel gauze under periodic reactor operation

The catalytic cracking of methane over nickel gauze is proposed as an attractive alternative for the production of CO-free hydrogen. The catalyst deactivates due to intensive coke deposition. Therefore, the reactor was operated periodically with the reaction followed by the catalyst regeneration by burning of coke in oxidative atmosphere. The optimal reaction performance was found to consist of...

Towards Synthesis of an Optimal Thermal Cracking Reactor

To develop new reactor options for thermal cracking of ethane or other light hydrocarbons to lower olefins a fundamental process synthesis approach is taken. Firstly, an optimal reaction path and conditions are targeted, starting from a mechanistic reaction network. Secondly, to implement the optimal reaction path the reactor geometry and equipment are designed. This contribution focuses on the...

Decomposition of hydrogen peroxide in a catalytic fluidized-bed reactor

The decomposition of H2O2 by a novel supported g-FeOOH catalyst was performed in a continuous fluidized-bed reactor. This catalyst has been successfully used in the treatment of organic contaminants with H2O2 in our previous work. In this study, we attempted to determine the effects of pH, H2O2 concentration, and catalyst concentration on the decomposition of H2O2. An approach, we regarded this...