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Structured Reactors Based on 3D Fe/SiC Catalysts: Understanding the Effects of Mixing

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INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH
卷 61, 期 32, 页码 11678-11690

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c01611

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  1. Spanish Government [RTI2018-095052-BI00, EIN2020-112153]
  2. European Union
  3. Community of Madrid [S2018/EMT-4341]
  4. CSIC project I-COOP+ 2019 [COOPB20405]
  5. European Social Fund [PEJ-2019-AI/IND-14385]

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This paper compares the performance of three different reactors in the catalytic phenol oxidation reaction, and finds that the use of mechanical stirring in three-dimensional monolithic reactors can solve the external mass transport limitation caused by oxygen bubbles. It also reveals the impact of wall porosity on catalyst stability.
The application of structured reactors provides a number of advantages in chemical processes. In this paper, two different three-dimensional (3D) Fe/SiC catalysts with a square cell geometry have been manufactured by Robocasting: monoliths (D = 14 and H = 15 mm) and meshes (D = 24 and H = 2 mm) and studied in the catalytic phenol oxidation by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) for the sustainable production of dihydroxybenzenes (DHBZ). The fluid dynamics, catalytic performance, reaction rates, external mass transport limitation, and catalyst stability have been compared in three different reactors, monolithic fixed-bed reactor, multimesh fixed-bed reactor, and monolithic stirrer reactor, at selected operating conditions. The results show that the mechanical stirring of the 3D Fe/SiC monoliths avoids the external mass transfer limitation caused by the presence of oxygen bubbles in the channels (produced from the HOx. species in autoscavenging radical reactions). In addition, the backmixing has a positive effect on the efficient consumption of H2O2 but an adverse effect on the phenol selectivity to DHBZ since they are overoxidized to tar products at longer contact times. On the other hand, the wall porosity, and not the backmixing, affects the susceptibility of the 3D Fe/SiC catalyst to the Fe leaching, as occurs in the mesh structures. In conclusion, the monoliths operating under plug-flow and external mass transfer limitation in the monolithic fixed-bed reactor (MFB) provide an outstanding phenol selectivity to DHBZ and catalyst stability.

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