Development of an Industrial Multitubular Fixed Bed Catalytic Reactor as Cape-open Unit Operation Model Applied to Ethene Production by Ethanol Dehydration Process
The ethene production by ethanol dehydration has been established as a promising production route. In this work a computer software simulation written in FORTRAN 95 for an industrial multitubular fixed bed reactor (MTR), applied to this production route, is embedded in process simulation environment through a C#./NET wrapper code. This wrapper code was developed in agreement with the CAPE-OPEN standards, allowing the MTR simulator to be used as a native unit operation component in any CAPEOPEN compliant simulation environment.
Activating ABO3-type coating by additive for coke inhibition in supercritical thermal cracking of endothermic hydrocarbon fuel
Abstract Coking during endothermic hydrocarbon fuel cracking is a key problem that has to be considered. In this study, anti-coking effect was systematically studied by using water, ethanol and HPW as additives on the coatings of CsOH and BaCeO3 during RP-3 cracking. The morphology, type and amount of coke deposits on the coatings were characterized by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), temperature programmed oxidation (TPO) and quantitative carbonization method, respectively. The results show that either the additive or the catalytic coating can effectively remove the coke deposits on the reaction tube. Remarkably, BaCeO3 coating is more effective in inhibiting the formation of fiber coke compared with CsOH coating，which is conducive to the cracking reaction. The best anti-coking effect is achieved by using 5 wt% ethanol as additive on the BaCeO3/HPW coating, and the inhibiting percentage is 97%. In addition, a possible anti-coking mechanism of carbon-steam gasification through BaCeO3/HPW coating and ethanol has been proposed.
Mechanics of deformable directed surfaces
Abstract The paper develops a simple, yet complete and consistent non-linear dynamic thermo-elastic shell theory based on the concepts of a two-dimensional directed continuum. The constitutive equations are postulated in a general form. Stress-strain relations are derived using the equation of energy balance and the two entropy production inequalities, which are rewritten in a special form. The linear theory is discussed in detail. The structure of the stress-strain relations is presented in the most general form and then specialized to concrete examples, in particular, to the classical shell theory, using their invariance properties with respective to certain symmetry groups. The elastic moduli are determined by demanding the coincidence of the frequency dispersion surfaces obtained using the two-dimensional theory with the lowest foils of the corresponding surfaces resulting from the three-dimensional theory of elasticity.