Resident-Time Distributions for Trickle Bed Reactors
Department
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Major
Biochemical Engineering
Research Advisor
Shariff, Humayun
Advisor's Department
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Abstract
Trickle Bed Reactor (TBR) is one of the common types of reactor used in the chemical industry. For this project, the Residence Time Distributions (RTD) for a lab scale packed bed reactor with trickling flow (downflow) were studied using liquid tracer experiments for two shapes of commercial catalysts, spherical and cylindrical. The reactor was packed with porous catalyst particles in the center with inert glass beads packed on top and bottom. The RTD was then found from conductivity measurements using pulse-input liquid-tracer injection. Different liquid and gas velocities were used to compare the data. From these, the mean residence time and standard deviation were determined from the C-curve. The liquid hold-up of the reactor was evaluated using the mean residence time to compare between the catylysts.
Biography
Kayla Bruemmer is a Junior in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. Her home town is Fair Grove, MO, just north of Springfield, MO. She loves Running, Hunting, and Fishing. For the summer of 2019, she will be interning at Mother's Brewery in Springfield, MO and working on her farm.
Research Category
Engineering
Presentation Type
Poster Presentation
Document Type
Poster
Award
Engineering poster session, Third place
Location
Upper Atrium
Presentation Date
16 Apr 2019, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Resident-Time Distributions for Trickle Bed Reactors
Upper Atrium
Trickle Bed Reactor (TBR) is one of the common types of reactor used in the chemical industry. For this project, the Residence Time Distributions (RTD) for a lab scale packed bed reactor with trickling flow (downflow) were studied using liquid tracer experiments for two shapes of commercial catalysts, spherical and cylindrical. The reactor was packed with porous catalyst particles in the center with inert glass beads packed on top and bottom. The RTD was then found from conductivity measurements using pulse-input liquid-tracer injection. Different liquid and gas velocities were used to compare the data. From these, the mean residence time and standard deviation were determined from the C-curve. The liquid hold-up of the reactor was evaluated using the mean residence time to compare between the catylysts.
