Seeking the design of a fixed-bed tubular reactor
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Fixed-bed tubular reactor, with a pressure of 2.5–4.5 MPa. The reaction temperature is 200–350°C, with heat transfer via a jacket. For liquid-liquid reactions of materials, I’m seeking advice: has anyone designed reactors for similar operating conditions, or are there any reactors of this type in use in production? Please elaborate.
It has been done before, using heat transfer oil for heating and a catalyst inside the tube for hydrogenation reactions.
In a fixed-bed tubular reactor, how is heat transfer achieved through the jacket? I don’t understand. A fixed-bed tubular reactor is essentially a fixed-tube-sheet heat exchanger, with catalyst placed inside the tubes and heat transfer or heating taking place in the shell side. The methanol synthesis towers and conversion reactors we designed all have this structure.
I would like to ask how to control the reaction temperature