Catalytic Processes Under Unsteady-State Conditions

Y.S. Matros

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1988
• Print ISBN:
  9780444871169
• eBook ISBN:
  9780080960760
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

This book deals with catalytic processes under forced non-steady-state conditions. It demonstrates, both theoretically and practically, that forced non-steady-state processes are highly efficient compared with steady-state processes, and illustrates this with a wealth of practical examples.The first part of the book describes the theoretical and experimental basis of efficient processes, mathematical models of non-steady-state processes in reactors, influence of a non-steady-state catalyst surface, problems of optimization, the theory of a heat front in the fixed catalyst bed, and methods to create efficient cyclic regimes. The second part considers the following processes: sulphur dioxide oxidation in sulphuric acid production, cleaning of effluent gases from toxic impurities, production of high-potency heat, ammonia and methanol synthesis etc.The book will appeal to many readers: chemical engineers (especially in the field of mathematical modelling of reactors with a fixed catalyst bed); personnel of chemical plants and machine-manufacturing companies dealing with maintenance and installation of catalytic reactors; specialists in detoxification of the effluents from organic admixtures and carbon monoxide; students of technical colleges and universities

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Catalytic Processes Under Unsteady-State Conditions
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Reaction performance in the catalyst unsteady state
• Chapter 2 Dynamic properties of contact apparatus
• Chapter 3 Reversal of the reaction mixture flow in the fixed catalyst bed
• Chapter 4 Reaction control by means of variation of the inlet parameters
• Chapter 5 Performance of cataytic processes in the formation and propagation of an heat wave
• Chapter 6 Purification of effluent industrial gases from organic substances and carbon monoxide
• Chapter 7 Non-steady-state method for sulphur dioxide oxidation in sulphuric acid production
• Chapter 8 Production of high-potency heat from slightly concentrated gases in the non-steady-state regime
• Chapter 9 Ammonia, methanol and sulphur production under non-steady-state conditions
• Future prospects
• Index
• studies in Surface Science and Catalysis (other volumes in the series)