Comparative Study of Packed Bed Reactor and Fluidized Bed Reactor for the Production of Propylene Oxide

CATEGORY: PROPYLENE
International Journal of Scientific Research in Chemical Engineering, 1(1), pp. 1-8, 2014
Comparative Study of Packed Bed Reactor and Fluidized Bed Reactor for the Production of Propylene Oxide
Abhishek Sao(1), Omprakash Sahu(2)
1 Department of Chemical Engineering, IT Guru Ghashi University, Bilaspur (CG), India.
2 Department of Chemical Engineering, KIOT, Wollo University, Kombolcha (SW), Ethiopia
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Abstract
Propylene oxide has major uses in a variety of chemical products. This study is to compares the efficiency of the packed bed reactor and fluidized bed reactor for the production of propylene oxide.
Currently two are applied for the production of propylene oxide first chlorohydrin process and second hydroperoxide process. For this study hydroperoxide process was used. It found that the conversion factor with respect catalysis loading and length of the tube found to be 100 % shown by packed bed reactor. By design and experiment it was found that packed bed reactor is more suitable as compared to fluidized bed reactor for production of propylene oxide.
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