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Modeling of catalytic reactors with catalyst deactivation. I. Pseudo-homogeneous model of a plug-flow reactor

J. Ilavský, A. Brunovská, J. Valtýni, and J. Buriánek

Department of Organic Technology, Slovak Technical University, CS-812 37Bratislava

Abstract:  The paper deals with modelling of catalytic reactors in which an irreversible catalyst deactivation takes place. The dimensionless model equations are derived for the pseudo-homogeneous model of a plug-flow reactor, an algorithm for their solution is proposed. The obtained results are compared with experimental ones in the case of hydrogenation of benzene on a nickel catalyst with thiophene as the poison.

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Chemical Papers 37 (4) 433–451 (1983)