Intensification of deep hydrodesulfurization through a two-stage combination of monolith and trickle bed reactors

Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 888-897

  Xu, Min ^a   Liu, Hui ^a   Ji, Shengfu ^a   Li, Chengyue ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Hydrodesulfurization (HDS); Kinetics; Mass transfer; Monolithic reactor; Reactor modeling; Trickle bed reactor

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CATALYSTS; ENZYME KINETICS; HYDRODESULFURIZATION; KINETICS; MASS TRANSFER; NICKEL; PRODUCTIVITY; RATE CONSTANTS; REACTION KINETICS; SULFUR;

DEEP HYDRODESULFURIZATION; FIRST-ORDER REACTION MODEL; MONOLITHIC REACTOR; PROCESS INTENSIFICATION; REACTOR MODELING; SULFUR CONTAINING COMPOUND; TRICKLE BED REACTOR; VOLUMETRIC PRODUCTIVITY;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EID: 85027942880     PISSN: 10049541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjche.2014.06.012     Document Type: Article

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