Original title: Simulation of heterogeneously-catalyzed non-isothermal reactive flow in industrial packed beds
Authors: Hlavatý, Tomáš ; Isoz, Martin ; Khýr, M.
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Topical Problems of Fluid Mechanics 2023, Prague (CZ), 20230222
Year: 2023
Language: eng
Abstract: Packed bed reactors are the most frequently used devices to perform heterogeneously catalyzed reactions on industrial scales. An industrial real-life heterogeneous catalysis is complex process that combines fully three-dimensional mass, momentum and energy transport on several scales. In the present work, we leverage our previously developed CFD solver for non-isothermal heterogeneously catalyzed reactive flow based on the finite volume method and couple it with our\nin-house DEM-based method for preparation of random packed beds. The resulting framework is verified in the simplified cases against available analytical solutions and correlations and is used to study an industrially-relevant case of ethylene oxychlorination performed in a tubular packed bed comprising CuCl2-coated catalyst carrying particles. In particular, we compare properties of three different industrially used catalyst carrying particles: Raschig rings, Reformax, and Wagon wheels
Keywords: CFD; non-isothermal flow; OpenFOAM
Host item entry: Topical Problems of Fluid Mechanics 2023, ISBN 978-80-87012-83-3, ISSN 2336-5781
Rights: This work is protected under the Copyright Act No. 121/2000 Coll.

Institution: Institute of Thermomechanics AS ČR (web)
Original record: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0349996

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