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Sd mainly because r1 increases steeper than r3 (up to εM r0:25) or 65
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decreases slower than r3 (for M 40:25). This trend is the same 55
everywhere in the bed and hence we obtain an increasing integral 50
MAN selectivity as it was shown in Fig. 6. 45
This means the diffusion–reaction balance has a different effect 40
on each inpidual reaction. With that it is possible to not only 35
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reactor scale. At this point, one can deduce that the fractions of macro- and micro-pores inside the catalyst pellet have effects on
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both the concentration profiles and reaction kinetics on the pellet scale and on the reactor scale. In addition to catalyst synthesis, optimizing the pellet pore structure offers the possibility to
Fig. 11. Effect of the micro-pore diameter dm
performance for n-butane oxidation.
on the simulated fixed-bed reactor
improve industrial maleic anhydride synthesis.
The other two parameters studied in this work were the macro- pore diameter dM and micro-pore diameter dm. Simulations with independent variation of dM and dm were carried out while the fraction of the macro- and micro-porosity (εM ¼ εm ¼ 0:25) was fixed. From the presented results above, εM ¼ 0:25 is the optimal value for dM ¼ 100 nm and dm ¼ 1 nm. In the following section, the main goal is to investigate if further improvement is possible by
tuning the pore size. Fig. 10 shows the overall conversion, selec- tivity, yield and hot spot temperature with respect to the macro- pore diameter. Both conversion and selectivity increase with increasing macro-pore diameter slightly. The overall yield of the product is improved, e.g. by 3% by increasing dM from 100 nm to 200 nm. The increase of the overall reactor performance can be explained by the acceleration of the diffusion rate since the Knudsen diffusivity increases linearly with the pore diameters. On the other hand, the specific area for reaction decreases with increasing dM but to a less significant extent than the promotion of the diffusion. However, the hot spot temperature increases further with increasing conversion and eventually will lead to destruction of the catalyst. Therefore, a maximum of 200 nm of the macro- pore diameter can be suggested for this case.
The influence of micro-pore diameter dm on the overall reactor
performance is shown in Fig. 11. The conversion of n-butane decreases rapidly with increasing dm. Even though the selectivity increases slightly, the overall yield of the product decreases with increasing dm. The decrease of conversion is a consequence of the decreasing specific area with decreasing dm. Since the micro-pore diameter is in the denominator for calculating the specific area, a reduced value of dm will lead to much higher surface area and thus an enhanced reaction rate. While, the diffusivity decreases with 固定床反应器中催化剂孔结构英文文献和中文翻译(10):http://www.youerw.com/fanyi/lunwen_78853.html