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INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH
Volume 62, Issue 46, Pages 20006-20016Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.3c03057
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This study investigates the redistribution of catalytically active species in heterogeneous porous catalysts during drying. It is found that a small amount of large pores can speed up the drying process and reduce internal pressure build up, while increasing the number of large pores facilitates the accumulation of species at the drying surface.
The distribution of catalytically active species in heterogeneous porous catalysts strongly influences their performance and durability in industrial reactors. A drying model for investigating this redistribution was developed and implemented using the finite volume method. This model embeds an analytical approach regarding the permeability and capillary pressure from arbitrary pore size distributions. Subsequently, a set of varying pore size distributions are investigated, and their impact on the species redistribution during drying is quantified. It was found that small amounts of large pores speed up the drying process and reduce internal pressure build up significantly while having a negligible impact on the final distribution of the catalytically active species. By further increasing the amount of large pores, the accumulation of species at the drying surface is facilitated.
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