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20020 Monoliths with Reactive Flow: Modeling and Experimentation
OverviewMonoliths have been extensively used in industrial processes for chemical conversions, heat management, and waste controls. Monoliths have often found their attractive applications when process detractors, such as flow maldistribution, hot spots, excessive pressure drops, low overall effectiveness factors, catalyst attrition, cannot be overcome by using conventional reactors. For example, the low pressure-drop advantage of the monolith beds has been well recognized by high throughput reactor application for catalytic partial oxidations of hydrocarbons; Monolith reactors have been also explored as an alternative to the standard hydrotreating reactors to utilize their unique gas-liquid-solid contacting features. Monoliths have been even commercialized on an enormous scale for flue-gas NOx clean up and been reliably used for automotive emission controls such as catalytic converters and recently as diesel particulate filters. There is a growing need to extend our conventional catalyst and reaction engineering knowledgebase to this new reactor category, to have better understanding of flow contacting, multispecies transports and detailed reaction kinetics and their interactions in monolith reactors, to have improved understanding of monolith structure impact and materials (washcoat) influence on monolith performance. All these will benefit to both current and future monolith applications. This session will provide an exciting place to share the experience and the state of art of monolith researches with reactive flow focused in both modeling and experimental work. The submissions of research papers in following areas are encouraged; the papers of monolith modeling or/and experiment in the areas other than following listed are also welcome. -Short contact time, high throughput catalytic monolith reactors; -Catalytic monolith reactors with multiphase flow; -Monoliths for stationary-sources and automotive emission controls; -Novel heat managements using catalytic monoliths; -Recent model development of catalyzed monoliths; -Experimental work on catalytic monolith reactors.
Primary SponsorCatalysis and Reaction Engineering Division (20)

Chair

Yi Jiang
Senior Resaerch Engineer
Corning Inc
Science Center Drive
SP-TD-01-1
Corning, NY 14831
Phone Number: 607-974-9532
Fax Number: 607-974-3405
Email: jiangy@corning.com

CoChair

Olaf Deutschmann
Professor
University of Karlsruhe
Institute for Chemical Technology (TCP)
Engesserstr. 20
Karlsruhe, BW 76131
Germany
Phone Number: +49 (0) 721 608 3138
Fax Number: +49 (0) 721 608 4805
Email: deutschmann@ict.uni-karlsruhe.de
Catalytic Autoignition of Higher Alkane Partial Oxidation on Rh-Coated Foams
Kenneth A. Williams and Lanny D. Schmidt, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0132
Partial Oxidation of Methane Using Metal-Substituted Hexaaluminate Catalysts on Porous-Foam Supports
Huayang Zhu1, Robert J. Kee1, Jeffrey R. Engel2 and David T. Wickham2, (1)Engineering Division, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, (2)TDA Research, Inc., Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
Analytical Method of Lines for Predicting Multiple and Asymmetric Steady States in Catalytic Monolith Reactors - Diffusive Transport
Venkat Subramanian and Vinten Diwakar, Chemical Engineering, Tennessee Technological University, 1020 Stadium Drive, Prescott Hall Room 307, Cookeville, TN 38505
Meso-Scale Modelling of Reactions and Transport in Digitally Reconstructed Porous Catalyst: Co Oxidation on Pt/Al2o3
Petr Koci1, Frantisek Stepanek2, Milan Kubicek3 and Milos A. Marek1, (1)Department of Chemical Engineering, Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Technicka 5, Prague, 16628, Czech Republic, (2)Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom, (3)Department of Mathematics, Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Technicka 5, Prague, 16628, Czech Republic
Detailed Numerical Modeling of Catalytic Monolith Reactors
Steffen Tischer and Olaf Deutschmann, Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry, University of Karlsruhe, Engesser Str. 20, Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
Hydrotreating Reaction Performance over CoMo-Catalyzed g-alumina Monolith Catalyst
Wei Liu, Science & Technology Division, Corning Incorporated, SP-FR-05, Sullivan Park, Corning, NY 14831

Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division