A comparative study on optimised and non-optimised axial flow, spherical reactors in naphtha reforming process

作者：Iranshahi Davood; Bahmanpour Ali Mohammad; Pourazadi Ehsan; Rahimpour Mohammad Reza^*

来源：Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2012, 90(5): 1102-1111.

DOI：10.1002/cjce.20627

• naphtha reforming
• dynamic optimisation
• axial flow-spherical reactor
• differential evolution
• catalyst deactivation

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.

• 出版日期2012-10