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 Chemical Engineering Department
Chemical Reaction Engineering (CH314)
Lecture-25

Solid Catalyzed Reactions

Dr. Imran Nazir Unar

Lecture Objectives

Discussion on:
• PERFORMANCE EQUATIONS FOR REACTORS CONTAINING
POROUS CATALYST PARTICLES
PERFORMANCE EQUATIONS FOR REACTION WITH CATALYST
For Plug Flow
 Take a thin slice of the PFR.

 Then following the analysis

for homogeneous reactions

(discussed in previous

lectures), we have the Fig. 1: Elementary slice of solid catalyzed plug flow reactor

situation shown in Fig. 1.

PERFORMANCE EQUATIONS FOR REACTION WITH CATALYST
For Plug Flow
 At steady state a material balance for reactant A gives.
(1)

 In symbols:

 In differential form:
(2)

 Integrating over the whole reactor gives

(3)
PERFORMANCE EQUATIONS FOR REACTION WITH CATALYST
For Plug Flow
 Note the similarity of this equation with Eq. 11 for homogeneous reactions
(Lecture 18).
(4)
 To bring this analogy closer let
(5)

 We have no name, for these two measures but if we wanted to we could call
them by the ugly terms weight-time, and volume-time, respectively.
 So for first order catalytic reactions Eq. 3 becomes

(5)
PERFORMANCE EQUATIONS FOR REACTION WITH CATALYST
For Mixed Flow
 Here we have, following the analysis of homogeneous reactions, for any εA
value: (6)

 For first-order reactions with CA in = CAo, and εA ≠0

(7)
PERFORMANCE EQUATIONS FOR REACTION WITH CATALYST
For a Reactor Containing a Batch of Catalyst and a Batch of
Gas

(8)
PERFORMANCE EQUATIONS FOR REACTION WITH CATALYST
Extensions of the Simple Performance Equations
 There are numerous applications of catalytic reactions where the fraction of
solids f varies with height z in the reactor (see Fig. 2).

Fig. 2: Catalytic reactors where solid fraction f varies with height.

PERFORMANCE EQUATIONS FOR REACTION WITH CATALYST
Extensions of the Simple Performance Equations
 For these situations the
performance equations could
more usefully be written
differently.
 With uo as the superficial gas
velocity (velocity if solids are
absent) through the vertical
reactor, Fig. 3 shows what Fig. 3: Section of catalytic reactor which has a solid fraction f

happens in a thin slice

through the reactor.
PERFORMANCE EQUATIONS FOR REACTION WITH CATALYST
Extensions of the Simple Performance Equations
 A steady-state material balance gives

 In symbols

 In differential form
(10)

 Integrating form
(11)

 For first-order reaction this expression reduces to

(12)
PERFORMANCE EQUATIONS FOR REACTION WITH CATALYST
Extensions of the Simple Performance Equations
 For the special case where εA = 0, f is constant, and the height of catalyst bed is H, we
have
(13)
Thank You

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