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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND PROCESSING-PROCESS INTENSIFICATION
Volume 42, Issue 3, Pages 157-178Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/S0255-2701(02)00086-7
Keywords
reactive separation; reactive distillation; reactive absorption; rate-based approach; film reaction; catalytic internals; Maxwell-Stefan equations
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In the last years chemical process industries have shown permanently increasing interest in the development of reactive separation processes (RSP) combining reaction and separation mechanisms into a single, integrated unit. Such processes bring several important advantages among which are increase of reaction yield and selectivity, overcoming thermodynamic restrictions, e.g. azeotropes, and considerable reduction in energy, water and solvent consumption. Important examples of reactive separations are reactive distillation (RD) and reactive absorption (RA). Due to strong interactions of chemical reaction and heat and mass transfer, the process behaviour of RSP tends to be quite complex. This paper gives an overview of up-to-date reactive separation modelling and design approaches and covers both steady-state and dynamic issues. These approaches have been applied to several different RA and RD processes including the absorption of NO,, coke gas purification, methyl acetate synthesis and methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) synthesis. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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