Temperature distribution is a key function for analyzing and optimizing the thermal behavior of various process equipments. Moving bed reactor (MBR) is one of the high-tech process equipment which tries to improve the process performance and its energy consumption by fluidizing solid particles in a base fluid. In the present study, thermal behavior of MBR has been analyzed through mathematical ...

In an effort to improve reactor performance and process operability, the microbial biotransformation of (-)-trans-carveol to (R)-(-)-carvone by hydrophobic Rhodococcus erythropolis DCL14 was carried out in a two phase partitioning bioreactor (TPPB) with solid polymer beads acting as the partitioning phase. Previous work had demonstrated that the substrate and product become inhibitory to the or...

in this paper, modeling and optimization of fischer-tropsch synthesis is considered in a fixed-bed catalytic reactor using an industrial fe-cu-k catalyst. a one dimensional pseudo-homogenous plug flow model without axial dispersion is developed for converting syngas to heavy hydrocarbons. the effects of temperature, pressure, h2 to co ratio in feed stream, and co molar flow on the mass flow rat...

We present the design and performance of a homebuilt high-pressure and high-temperature reactor equipped with a high-resolution scanning tunneling microscope (STM) for catalytic studies. In this design, the STM body, sample, and tip are placed in a small high pressure reactor ( approximately 19 cm(3)) located within an ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) chamber. A sealable port on the wall of the reactor s...

This paper is concerned with the design and the analysis of some nonlinear control strategies for a lactic acid production in the context of a continuously stirred tank reactor for which dynamical kinetics are strongly nonlinear and not exactly known. Since in a lactic acid fermentation process the main cost of raw material comes from the substrate and nutrient requirements, some multivariable ...

The future NFS installation will produce high intensity neutron beams from hundreds of keV up to 40MeV. Taking advantage of this facility, data of particular interest for the nuclear community in view of the development of the fast reactor technology will be measured. The development of an experimental setup called FALSTAFF for a full characterization of actinide fission fragments has been unde...

This paper investigates denitrification of brines originating from membrane treatment of groundwater in an upflow sludge blanket (USB) reactor, a biofilm reactor without carrier. A simulated brine wastewater was prepared from tap water and contained a nitrate concentration of 125 mg/l as N and a total salt concentration of about 1%. In order to select for a suitable energy source for denitrific...

This paper uses the operation of a pulp bleaching reactor as a platform for the illustration and discussion of several ideas involving use of the stationary probability density function in process control. A computer simulation of the partial differential equations, derived from first-principles, describing the bleaching reactor is used to represent the true process. Empirical, discrete-time mo...

Stratégia adaptívneho riadenia pre triedu nelineárneho rozvoja bioprocesov This paper presents the control problem of a class of propagation bioprocesses that are carried out in fixed bed reactors. Since the dynamics of these processes are described by partial differential equations, in order to obtain useful models for control purposes, a possible method consists of approximation of their infi...

Two types of stainless steel microstructured reactors for catalytic gas-phase reactions have been developed and characterized with respect to heir thermal behaviour under non-stationary temperature conditions. One of the reactors used (FTC-I) allowed periodic temperature changes up to 00 K with a frequency of 0.05 Hz. However, a broad temperature gradient of 80 K developed inside the reactor. A...