Catalyst Design: Optimal Distribution Of Catalyst In Pellets, Reactors, And Membranes (cambridge Series In Chemical Engineering)

Catalyst Design Heterogeneous catalysis is widely used in chemical, refinery, and pollutioncontrol processes. For this reason, achieving optimal performance of catalysts is a significant issue for chemical engineers and chemists. This book addresses the question of how catalytic material should be distributed inside a porous support in order to obtain optimal performance. It treats single- and multiple-reaction systems, isothermal and nonisothermal conditions, pellets, monoliths, fixed-bed reactors, and membrane reactors. The effects of physicochemical and operating parameters are analyzed to gain insight into the underlying phenomena governing the performance of optimally designed catalysts. Throughout, the authors offer a balanced treatment of theory and experiment. Particular attention is given to problems of commercial importance. With its thorough treatment of the design, preparation, and utilization of supported catalysts, this book will be a useful resource for graduate students, researchers, and practicing engineers and chemists. Massimo Morbidelli is Professor of Chemical Reaction Engineering in the Laboratorium fur ¨ Technische Chemie at ETH, Zurich. ¨ Asterios Gavriilidis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University College London. Arvind Varma is the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. CAMBRIDGE SERIES IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Series Editor: Arvind Varma, University of Notre Dame Editorial Board: Alexis T. Bell, University of California, Berkeley John Bridgwater, University of Cambridge Robert A. Brown, MIT L. Gary Leal, University of California, Santa Barbara Massimo Morbidelli, ETH, Zurich Stanley I. Sandler, University of Delaware Michael L. Shuler, Cornell University Arthur W. Westerberg, Carnegie Mellon University Books in the Series: E. L. Cussler, Diffusion: Mass Transfer in Fluid Systems, second edition Liang-Shih Fan and Chao Zhu, Principles of Gas-Solid Flows Hasan Orbey and Stanley I. Sandler, Modeling Vapor-Liquid Equilibria: Cubic Equations of State and Their Mixing Rules T. Michael Duncan and Jeffrey A. Reimer, Chemical Engineering Design and Analysis: An Introduction A. Varma, M. Morbidelli and H. Wu, Parametric Sensitivity in Chemical Systems John C. Slattery, Advanced Transport Phenomena M. Morbidelli, A. Gavriilidis and A. Varma, Catalyst Design: Optimal Distribution of Catalyst in Pellets, Reactors, and Membranes Catalyst Design OPTIMAL DISTRIBUTION OF CATALYST IN PELLETS, REACTORS, AND MEMBRANES Massimo Morbidelli ETH, Zurich Asterios Gavriilidis University College London Arvind Varma University of Notre Dame To our teachers and students CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521660594