An experimental study of pressure drop characteristics under single-phase flow through packed bed microreactors

IF 3.5 3区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, CHEMICAL

AIChE Journal Pub Date : 2024-11-20 DOI:10.1002/aic.18640

Lu Zhang, Arne Hommes, Remon Schuring, Jun Yue

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Abstract

Packed bed microreactors offer a promising platform for intensifying heterogeneously catalyzed reactions. To understand hydrodynamics therein, N₂ or water flow was investigated experimentally through microreactors packed with glass beads in this work, corresponding to a microreactor to particle diameter ratio (D/d) of 1.29–25.12. The porosity of a single pellet string microreactor (D/d < 1.866) agrees with the literature's theoretical equation. For microreactors with larger D/d ratios, an empirical porosity correlation is proposed to address the dense packing nature of the bed. The existing correlations are inadequate to describe the pressure drop data in microreactors within the entire D/d ratios and modified Reynolds numbers (Re_m < 291). At D/d ≥ 3, the measured pressure drop is described by the modified Ergun equation using properties of the bulk bed zone to exclude the wall effect. At D/d < 3, it can be predicted by introducing a correction term for the wall effect into the Ergun equation.

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填料床微反应器中单相流压降特性的实验研究

填料床微反应器为强化异构催化反应提供了一个前景广阔的平台。为了了解其中的流体力学，本研究通过实验研究了氮气或水在微反应器中的流动情况，微反应器与颗粒的直径比（D/d）为 1.29-25.12。单颗粒串微反应器的孔隙率（D/d <1.866）与文献中的理论方程一致。对于 D/d 比值较大的微反应器，建议采用经验孔隙率相关性来解决床层的致密堆积特性。在整个 D/d 比和修正雷诺数（Rem < 291）范围内，现有的相关性不足以描述微反应器中的压降数据。当 D/d ≥ 3 时，测得的压降由修正的厄尔贡方程描述，该方程使用了大量床层区域的特性来排除壁面效应。在 D/d < 3 时，可以通过在厄尔贡方程中引入壁面效应修正项来预测压降。

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AIChE Journal 工程技术-工程：化工

CiteScore

7.10

自引率

10.80%

发文量

411

审稿时长

3.6 months

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