Modeling and simulation of an industrial trickle-bed reactor for benzene hydrogenation: Model validation against plant data

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1866-1872

  Roininen, Jonas ^a   Alopaeus, Ville ^a   Toppinen, Sami ^b   Aittamaa, Juhani ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Neste Oil Oyj   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENATION; LIQUID FILMS; REACTION KINETICS;

BENCH-SCALE REACTORS; BENZENE HYDROGENATIONS; FILM MASS-TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; GAS-LIQUID MASS TRANSFERS; HIGH SENSITIVITIES; MEASURED DATUM; MODEL PREDICTIONS; MODEL VALIDATIONS; MODELING AND SIMULATIONS; PLANT DATUM; SIMULATION RESULTS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; THREE-PHASE REACTORS; TRICKLE-BED REACTORS;

MASS TRANSFER;

EID: 61649115160     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie801411n     Document Type: Article

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