Muhammad Fadel Abd; Farah Talib Jasim; Luma Shihab Ahmed
Abstract
Experimental investigations have been carried out to study the performance of trickle bed reactor. The effect of key parameters that play predominate role in the performance of trickle ...
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Experimental investigations have been carried out to study the performance of trickle bed reactor. The effect of key parameters that play predominate role in the performance of trickle bed reactor was studied. A laboratory unit was constructed for this purpose where a versatile reactor setup required " high pressure stainless steel reactor of 0.05m i.d × 1.25m height", in which the hydrodynamic experiments carried out under different operating condition namely, superficial gas velocity and liquid velocity , reactor pressure, bed temperature .Air–water system was used for hydrodynamic experiments pressure drop, dynamic liquid holdup, and axial dispersion coefficients were estimated. The results also show that the dynamic liquid holdup increases with increasing liquid velocity and decreases with increasing superficial gas velocity and bed temperature. Axial dispersion tends to increase with increasing superficial gas and liquid velocities while it decreases with increasing bed temperature.
