October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
25h 46m
English
Reaction systems with significant catalyst decay require the continual regeneration and/or replacement of the catalyst. Two types of reactors currently in commercial use that accommodate production with decaying catalysts are the moving-bed and straight-through transport reactor. A schematic diagram of a moving-bed reactor (used for catalytic cracking) is shown in Figure 10-32.

Figure 10-32 Thermofor catalytic cracking (TCC) unit. (Weekman, V. AIChE Monogr. Ser., 75(11), 4 (1979). With permission of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Copyright © 1979 AIChE. All rights reserved.)
The freshly regenerated ...