The three-levels-of-porosity reactor. A novel reactor for countercurrent trickle-flow processes

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 52, Issue 21-22, 1997, Pages 3901-3907

  Van Hasselt, B W ^a   Lindenbergh, D J ^a   Calis, H P ^a   Sie, S T ^a   Van Den Bleek, C M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Countercurrent flow; Flooding; Gas liquid solid reactors; Liquid holdup; Pressure drop

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; POROSITY; PRESSURE DROP;

COUNTERCURRENT TRICKLE FLOW; LIQUID HOLDUP;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

COUNTERCURRENT FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; PRESSURE DROP; REACTOR;

EID: 0031278331     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(97)00234-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. De Wind, M., Plantenga, F. L., Heinerman, J. J. L. and Homan Free, H. W. (1988) Upflow versus downflow testing of hydrotreating catalysts. Appl. Catal., 43, 239-252.
2. Fair, J. R., Steinmeyer, D. E., Penney, W. R. and Crocker, B. B. (1984) Liquid-Gas systems. In Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, eds R. H. Perry, D. W. Green and J. O. Maloney, pp. 18-22, McGraw-Hill, New York.
3. Kister, H. Z. (1992) Distillation Design, pp. 475-476. McGraw-Hill, New York.
4. Le Nobel, J. W. and Choufoer, J. H. (1959) Development in treating processes for the petroleum industry. In Proc. 5th World Petroleum Congress, pp. 233-249, New York.
5. Mills, P. L., Beaudry, E. G. and Dudukovic, M.P. (1984) Comparison and prediction of reactor performance for packed beds with two-phase flow: downflow, upflow and countercurrent flow. IChemE Symp. Ser. 87, 527-534.
6. Sie, S. T. (1994) Reactor filled with catalyst material, and catalyst therefor. Dutch patent application No. 9400206.
7. Stanek, V. and Carsky, M. (1985) An experimental study of the flow of liquid in counter-current trickle beds by the frequency response technique. Chem. Engng Sci. 40, 463-471.
8. Trambouze, P. (1990) Countercurrent two-phase flow fixed bed catalytic reactors, Chem. Engng Sci. 45, 2269-2275.