A comparative study on optimised and non‐optimised axial flow,spherical reactors in naphtha reforming process |
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| Authors: | Davood Iranshahi Ali Mohammad Bahmanpour Ehsan Pourazadi Mohammad Reza Rahimpour |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz 71345, Iran |
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| Abstract: | In this study, the operating conditions of an axial flow spherical reactor have been optimised using a reliable optimisation technique and the results are compared with the results of non‐optimised conditions. The dynamic behaviour of the reactor has been considered in the optimisation process and orthogonal collocation method has been used in order to solve the obtained equations from mathematical modelling of the process. The goal of this study is to maximise the aromatics and hydrogen production rate. Therefore, the objective function is the combination of two terms which include the production rate of the mentioned components. The catalyst distribution for each reactor, the inlet pressure of the system, Length per radius for each reactor, the naphtha feed molar flow rate and the hydrogen mole fraction in the recycle stream as well as the inlet temperature of each reactor have been optimised in this study. © 2011 Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering |
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| Keywords: | naphtha reforming dynamic optimisation axial flow‐spherical reactor differential evolution catalyst deactivation |
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