title: Moving bed reactor setup to study complex gas-solid reactions.
abstract: A moving bed scale reactor setup for studying complex gas-solid reactions has been designed in order to obtain kinetic data for scale-up purpose. In this bench scale reactor setup, gas and solid reactants can be contacted in a cocurrent and countercurrent manner at high temperatures. Gas and solid sampling can be performed through the reactor bed with their composition profiles determined at steady state. The reactor setup can be used to evaluate and corroborate model parameters accounting for intrinsic reaction rates in both simple and complex gas-solid reaction systems. The moving bed design allows experimentation over a variety of gas and solid compositions in a single experiment unlike differential bed reactors where the gas composition is usually fixed. The data obtained from the reactor can also be used for direct scale-up of designs for moving bed reactors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
authors.forename: Puneet
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Luis G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Velazquez-Vargas
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Valentine
authors.forename: Liang-Shih
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Fan
mesh_terms: D002623:Chemistry Techniques, Analytical / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D017022:Flow Injection Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D005740:Gases / Q000737:chemistry*; D044085:Microfluidics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D009038:Motion; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013048:Specimen Handling / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D005740:Gases