Assessing the performance of an industrial SBCR for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis: EXPERIMENTAL and modeling

AIChE Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3838-3857

  Sehabiague, Laurent ^a   Basha, Omar M ^a   Hong, Yemin ^a   Morsi, Badie ^a   Shi, Zhansheng ^b,c   Jia, Haolin ^b   Weng, Li ^b   Men, Zhuowu ^b   Liu, Ke ^b   Cheng, Yi ^c  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CLEAN AND LOW CARBON ENERGY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fischer Tropsch; Hydrodynamics; Mass transfer; Modeling; Scale up; Slurry bubble column reactor

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE COLUMNS; CATALYST DEACTIVATION; CHEMICAL SHIFT; GASES; HYDRODYNAMICS; IRON; MASS TRANSFER; MODELS; REACTION KINETICS; WATER GAS SHIFT;

FISCHER TROPSCH; LENGTH TO DIAMETER RATIO; LIQUID-SIDE MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; SAUTER MEAN DIAMETER (SMD); SCALE-UP; SLURRY BUBBLE COLUMN REACTORS; SUPERFICIAL GAS VELOCITIES; WATER-GAS-SHIFT REACTION KINETICS;

FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84944104445     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.14931     Document Type: Article

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