Non thermal plasma (NTP) reactors packed with non-catalytic or catalytic packing material have been widely used for the abatement of volatile organic compounds such as toluene, benzene, etc. Packed bed reactors are single stage reactors where the packing material is placed directly in the plasma discharge region. The presence of packing material can alter the physical (such as discharge charact...

The Catofin propane process is an emerging industrial process for propylene production through dehydrogenation of propane. It is composed of multiple adiabatic fixed-bed reactors which undergo cyclic operations where propane dehydrogenation and catalyst regeneration alternate over roughly ten minute period for each. One of the major concerns in the operation of the Catofin process is maintainin...

This work aims to evaluate the hydrodynamic properties of the sludge bed of Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) reactors based on its settleability and expansion characteristics. The methodologies used for the evaluation of the settleability of aerobic activated sludge, and for the expansibility of a sludge bed of Expanded Granular Sludge Bed reactors and Fluidised Bed Reactors were adapted ...

The paper proposes a critical assessment of municipal solid waste gasification today, starting from basic aspects of the process (process types and steps, operating and performance parameters) and arriving to a comparative analysis of the reactors (fixed bed, fluidized bed, entrained bed, vertical shaft, moving grate furnace, rotary kiln, plasma reactor) as well as of the possible plant configu...

Residue catalytic hydrogenation was carried out in a two-stage downflow fixed-bed reactor system, with HDM catalyst the first stage and HDS second one, to mimic industrial operation. The experiments were run at five sets of temperatures (395 °C (first reactor)/405 (second reactor), 400 °C/410 °C, 405 °C/415 410 °C/420 420 °C/430 °C). It found that initial deactivation mainly caused by rapid dep...

This study presented a hydrophobic interaction-based poly(HEMA-MATrp) monolithic chromatographic column (MCC) to remove amoxicillin from aqueous solutions. In addition their porous structure, monolithic-filled columns offer superior properties without loss of performance, which is one the points that make them unique. The specific surface area synthesized by bulk polymerization 2-hydroxyethyl m...