This paper investigates steady-state and dynamic simulation of an industrial fixed-bed ethylene oxide reactor. A mathematical heterogeneous one-dimensional model is developed for simulation of reactor performance in t...This paper investigates steady-state and dynamic simulation of an industrial fixed-bed ethylene oxide reactor. A mathematical heterogeneous one-dimensional model is developed for simulation of reactor performance in the presence of long term deactivation of silver/a-alumina catalyst. In this paper, steady-state model of the reactor is solved and results of steady state simulation are fed to dynamic simulator as initial condition. When results of dynamic simulation are compared with industrial reactor data, it is found that there were good agreements between simulation results and industrial data. The proposed model is also validated by industrial process data for a period of 1100 operating days.展开更多
文摘This paper investigates steady-state and dynamic simulation of an industrial fixed-bed ethylene oxide reactor. A mathematical heterogeneous one-dimensional model is developed for simulation of reactor performance in the presence of long term deactivation of silver/a-alumina catalyst. In this paper, steady-state model of the reactor is solved and results of steady state simulation are fed to dynamic simulator as initial condition. When results of dynamic simulation are compared with industrial reactor data, it is found that there were good agreements between simulation results and industrial data. The proposed model is also validated by industrial process data for a period of 1100 operating days.
