TY - JOUR

T1 - Design of a radio frequency heated isothermal micro-trickle bed reactor

AU - Aiouache, Farid

PY - 2014/5/1

Y1 - 2014/5/1

N2 - AbstractA near-isothermal micro-trickle bed reactor operated under radio frequency heating was developed. The reactor bed was packed with nickel ferrite micro-particles of 110 mu m diameter, generating heat by the application of RF field at 180 kHz. Hydrodynamics in a co-current configuration was analysed and heat transfer rates were determined at temperature ranging from 55 to 100 degrees C. A multi-zone reactor bed of several heating and catalytic zones was proposed in order to achieve near-isothermal operations. Exact positioning, number of the heating zones and length of the heating zones composed of a mixture of nickel ferrite and a catalyst were determined by solving a one dimensional model of heat transfer by conduction and convection. The conductive losses contributed up to 30% in the total thermal losses from the reactor. Three heating zones were required to obtain an isothermal length of 50 mm with a temperature non-uniformity of 2 K. A good agreement between the modelling and experimental results was obtained for temperature profiles of the reactor. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

AB - AbstractA near-isothermal micro-trickle bed reactor operated under radio frequency heating was developed. The reactor bed was packed with nickel ferrite micro-particles of 110 mu m diameter, generating heat by the application of RF field at 180 kHz. Hydrodynamics in a co-current configuration was analysed and heat transfer rates were determined at temperature ranging from 55 to 100 degrees C. A multi-zone reactor bed of several heating and catalytic zones was proposed in order to achieve near-isothermal operations. Exact positioning, number of the heating zones and length of the heating zones composed of a mixture of nickel ferrite and a catalyst were determined by solving a one dimensional model of heat transfer by conduction and convection. The conductive losses contributed up to 30% in the total thermal losses from the reactor. Three heating zones were required to obtain an isothermal length of 50 mm with a temperature non-uniformity of 2 K. A good agreement between the modelling and experimental results was obtained for temperature profiles of the reactor. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

KW - Microreactor

KW - Trickle-bed reactor

KW - Heat transfer

KW - Conduction

U2 - 10.1016/j.cej.2013.12.059

DO - 10.1016/j.cej.2013.12.059

M3 - Journal article

VL - 243

SP - 225

EP - 233

JO - Chemical Engineering Journal

JF - Chemical Engineering Journal

SN - 1385-8947

ER -