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Toward a Competitive Process Intensification: A New Generation of Heat Exchanger-Reactors

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2010

Journal

OIL & GAS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY-REVUE D IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES

Volume

65

Issue

5

First Page

785

URL with Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.2516/ogst/2010020

Last Page

792

Abstract

Toward a Competitive Process Intensification: A New Generation of Heat Exchanger-Reactors - Process Intensification (PI) in chemical production is a major concern of chemical manufacturers. Among the numerous options to intensify a process, the transposition from a batch reactor to a continuous plug flow reactor is a good alternative when the selectivity and the thermal exchange are an issue. In this context, the RAPIC R&D project aims to develop an innovative low-cost component (in the 10 kg/h range). This project deals with the design from the local to the global scale and with testing, from elementary mock-ups to pilot scale. The present paper gives a detailed description of this research project and presents the main results on specification and definition of the reaction channel and the first simple mock-ups.

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