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Plug Flow Reactor Design

This document discusses the design of a plug flow reactor for a transalkylation reaction. It provides equations to calculate the volume of reactor required based on the initial reactant concentration, flow rate, specified conversion, catalyst voidage fraction, and catalyst density. The steps involve: 1) Calculating the weight of catalyst needed 2) Determining the volume of catalyst 3) Calculating the volume of reactor required using the specified conversion 4) Adding a 10% allowance to the volume for reactor heads 5) Determining reactor diameter and length based on a diameter to length ratio of 5.

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Plug Flow Reactor Design

This document discusses the design of a plug flow reactor for a transalkylation reaction. It provides equations to calculate the volume of reactor required based on the initial reactant concentration, flow rate, specified conversion, catalyst voidage fraction, and catalyst density. The steps involve: 1) Calculating the weight of catalyst needed 2) Determining the volume of catalyst 3) Calculating the volume of reactor required using the specified conversion 4) Adding a 10% allowance to the volume for reactor heads 5) Determining reactor diameter and length based on a diameter to length ratio of 5.

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1.1.

7Plug flow Reactor design In a plug flow reactor the composition of the fluid varies from point to point along a flow path; consequently, the material balance for a reaction component must be made for a differential element of volume dV. Thus for a reactant A the mass balance becomes; Input = output +disappearance by reaction + accumulation Where accumulation is zero thus, the equation becomes; Input = output + disappearance by reaction Calculation of reactor volume is by the following equation,

Notation
V FAO XA CAO A(subscript) rA Volume of reactor Feed flow rate ( kgmolh-1) Fractional conversion of DIPB Space time (kg h kgmol-1 ) Initial concentration of DIPB DIPB Rate of disappearance of species A(DIPB) (kgmol kgcat-1hr-1)

Transalkylation reactor design data


Table 1.2 Initial DIPB concentration CDIPBO Initial DIPB flow rate FDIPBO Specified DIPB conversion XDIPB Catalyst Voidage fraction A 0.95 0.5 Kgmolm-3 (From mass balance)

To determine the volume of reactor the following steps were followed; 1. Weight of catalyst(equation adapted from Kondamudi,upayadhula) (1.1)

(1.2)

Evaluating the integral of the above equation using simpsons rule;

(1.3) Wcat= kg 2. Volume of catalyst (1.4)

(1.5) V= m3

3. Volume of reactor required (1.6)

4. Actual volume of reactor, a 10% allowance for the heads

Vact = 5. Diameter of reactor, as a rule of thumb the diameter to length ratio is 5(L/D=5) Since

D=m

6. Length of reactor L=5D L= m kg m-3 m m

Reactor design specifications Catalyst weight Reactor volume Reactor inside diameter Reactor length

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