Reactor volume calculation
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I am calculating the size of a reactor. The liquid phase volume flow rate of its reactants is 23 m3/h, and its space velocity is required to be 5h-1. Is its volume: 23 divided by 5 = about 4.6m3? airspeed definition: Space velocity = volumetric flow/catalyst bed volume. There is also a reactor with a gas phase volume flow rate of 3000 m3/h and a space velocity of 30h-1. What is the approximate volume of the reactor and how to calculate it?
"Chemical Reaction Engineering" should have been mentioned above. I don't have any textbooks at hand. In my memory, the space velocity is the volumetric flow rate of the feed gas in the feed state/reactor volume. So the unit is 1/h. If this is the case, just 23/4 will be enough. But I can’t remember clearly. There seems to be a similar example in the Reaction Engineering book. You can check it out. The hero flipped through the book and gave an answer.
Is the entire reactor filled with catalyst?
airspeed should be: The volume flow rate under the standard, the actual volume flow rate needs to be considered when calculating
This has been discussed before, but I don’t know if it’s the same issue.: http://bbs.hcbbs.com/viewthread.php?tid=119606&page=1#pid484095
. . . The original poster calculated the reaction volume and divided it by a filling coefficient. . It seems to be around 0.7~0.8
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