Introduction Applications of multiphase technology are prevalent in petroleum refining, synthesis gas conversion to fuels and chemicals, bulk commodity chemicals, specialty chemicals, conversion of undesired by-products to recyclable products, manufacture of polymers, biotechnology and pollution abatement. In these processes the reactor performance is crucial: it determines the number and size ...

A numerical model coupling transient radiative, convective, and conductive heat transfer, mass transfer, and chemical kinetics of heterogeneous solid–gas reactions has been developed for a semitransparent, non-uniform, and non-isothermal particle undergoing cyclic thermochemical transformations. The carbonation–calcination reaction pair for calcium oxide looping is selected as the model cycle b...

The non-isothermal continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) is a classical yet complex case study of nonlinear dynamical systems. Power-shaping control is a recent approach for the control of nonlinear systems based on the physics of the dynamical system. In this paper we apply the power-shaping control approach to the nonisothermal CSTR study case. A global Lyapunov function is derived for the o...

for more than three decades, oxidative coupling of methane (ocm) process has been comprehensively investigated as an attractive alternative for the commercially available ethylene production technologies such as ethane and naphtha cracking. developing a suitable catalyst and proper reactor feeding policy, reviewing and deploying the efficient methods in the separation and purification of the un...

A continuous flow parallel reactor system has been developed to provide a rapid and seamless transition from the discovery phase and production phase of chemical synthesis, particularly in low volume-high value pharmaceuticals production. Using a single fixed bed catalytic meso reactor, reactions can be screened on a small discovery scale over short time scales. The intensified process produces...

Gray, Scott and their collaborators proposed the model analyzed in our paper in the 80’s. The model describes an autocatalytic mechanism in isothermal systems where the reaction rate is increased by strengthening the concentration of one of the products. The chemical reaction (Fig. 1) occurs in a continuously stirred tank reactor (CSTR) and it involves two reactants X and Y with concentrations ...

In the current work, flow characteristics of single isothermal and non-isothermal jets discharging into upper plenum a 1/16th scaled-down high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) facility were studied. ANSYS Fluent simulations carried out in central plane jet water for different Reynolds numbers (Re) ranging from 3413 to 12,819. Then, statistical characteristics, such as mean velocity, root-m...

Research was conducted to evaluate the feasibility of producing methane gas from combined segregated municipal and agricultural waste. The combination of the two wastes resulted in sufficient nutrient value and bacterial diversity to improve the biodegradability of cellulose and increase the efficiency of gas production from the combined wastes. The feedstock included municipal solid waste with...

The urea reactor is one of the most important units in the urea synthesis process. Rigorous simulation of the urea reactor is necessary and significant. Ho,wever, the complicated thermodynamic system and chemical reactions result in difficulties of modeling and simulation. In this work, the urea reactor is considered as a critical gas-liquid concurrent fluid reactor, in which some perforated pl...

Gas-To-Liquid (GTL) processes have great potential as alternative to conventional oil and coal processing for the production of liquid fuels. In GTL-processes the partial oxidation of methane (POM) is combined with the Fischer-Tropsch reaction. An important part of the investment costs of a conventional GTL-plant is related to cryogenic air separation. These costs could be substantially reduced...