Modeling and Simulation of a Novel Membrane Reactor in Continuous Catalytic Regenerative (CCR) Naphtha Reformer Accompanied with Detailed Description of Kinetic

CATEGORY: MEMBRANES
Energy Fuels, Just Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1021/ef302057k, Publication Date (Web): March 14, 2013
Modeling and Simulation of a Novel Membrane Reactor in Continuous Catalytic Regenerative (CCR) Naphtha Reformer Accompanied with Detailed Description of Kinetic
Davood Iranshahi , Shahram Amiri , Mohsen Karimi , Razieh Rafiei , Mitra Jafari , and Mohammad Reza Rahimpour
Abstract
Improving reformer performance by increasing the octane number of products has become ever more important. Researchers are seeking ways of increasing the content of high-octane number products such as aromatics. Accordingly, authors present an alternative configuration for conventional moving bed naphtha reactor. They introduce a membrane concept to the moving bed reactors to increase aromatics and hydrogen yields.
Most studies on the simulation of CCR naphtha reactors focus on one dimensional mathematical model.  The authors, on the other hand, employ a two dimensional mathematical model (in the radial and axial directions). In the model, a novel reaction network based on 32 pseudo-components and 84 reactions, as well as a new deactivation model including the most effective parameters are considered.
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