Optimal operation of a catalytic tubular reactor with fouling catalyst by coke deposition

Analysis of the lumped and distributed optimal temperature trajectories for packed bed reactors with concentration dependent catalyst deactivation

“…Some considerations of the problems analysed theoretically have been applied to specific industrial problems as Dumez and Froment (1976) did to the dehydrogenation of 1-butene to butadiene with complex kinetics for both the main and deactivation reactions, Mansson and Andresen (1985) to the ammonia synthesis with kinetic equations of the type of Temkin-Pyzkev, Culfaz et al (1984) to the isomerization of pentene, and some others (Noda et al, 1975;Weekman, 1968Weekman, , 1969Nace et al, 1971;Voltz et al, 1972;Gross et al, 1974).…”