1 INTRODUCTIONThe concentration distribution of reactant in porouscatalyst pellet not only is the basis of calculating theeffectiveness factor,but also has a great significancein investigating the reaction and mass tr...1 INTRODUCTIONThe concentration distribution of reactant in porouscatalyst pellet not only is the basis of calculating theeffectiveness factor,but also has a great significancein investigating the reaction and mass transfer in thecatalyst pellet.In principle,the concentration distri-bution and the effectiveness factor of a catalyst pelletcan be obtained by solving the reaction-diffusion equation.However,most of the differential equations haveno analytical solution except for some simple cases.The previous investigators have made great efforts to calculate the effectiveness factors of catalysts.They first obtained asymptotic solutions of effective-ness factor in the cases of the Thiele modulus φ→Oand φ→oo by means of perturbation method,thensynthesized the information of the asymptotic solu-展开更多
基金Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province.
文摘1 INTRODUCTIONThe concentration distribution of reactant in porouscatalyst pellet not only is the basis of calculating theeffectiveness factor,but also has a great significancein investigating the reaction and mass transfer in thecatalyst pellet.In principle,the concentration distri-bution and the effectiveness factor of a catalyst pelletcan be obtained by solving the reaction-diffusion equation.However,most of the differential equations haveno analytical solution except for some simple cases.The previous investigators have made great efforts to calculate the effectiveness factors of catalysts.They first obtained asymptotic solutions of effective-ness factor in the cases of the Thiele modulus φ→Oand φ→oo by means of perturbation method,thensynthesized the information of the asymptotic solu-
