TITLE: Design of slurry reactor for indirect liquefaction applications. Final report.

AUTHOR: A. Prakash;   P. G. Bendale.

INST.  AUTHOR: Viking Systems International, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA.

SPONSOR: Department of Energy, Washington, DC.

LANGUAGE: English

PUB.  TYPE: Technical Report

PUB.  COUNTRY: United States

SOURCE: Department of Energy [DE],  1991,  108p.

NTIS ORDER NO.: DE92008748INW

ABSTRACT:

The objective of this project is to design and model a conceptual slurry reactor for two indirect liquefaction applications; (1) production of methanol and (2) production of hydrocarbon fuels via Fischer-Tropsch route. A slurry reactor is defined here as a three-phase bubble column  reactor using a fine catalyst particle suspension in a high molecular weight liquid. The feed gas is introduced through spargers. It then bubbles through the column providing the agitation necessary for catalyst suspension and mass transfer. The reactor models for the two processes have been formulated using computer simulation. Process data, kinetic and thermodynamic data, heat and mass transfer data and hydrodynamic data have been used in the mathematical models to describe the slurry reactor for each of the two processes. Available data from process development units and demonstration units were used to test and validate the models.  Commercial size slurry reactors for methanol and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis were sized using reactor models developed in this report. (ERA citation 17:015020)

REPORT  NUMBER: DOE/PC/89870-T1

CONTRACT  NUMBER: AC22-89PC89870