Trickle Bed Reactors: Reactor Engineering and Applications

This book provides a hybrid methodology for engineering of trickle bed reactors by integrating conventional reaction engineering models with state-of-the-art computational flow models. The content may be used in several ways and at various stages in the engineering process: it may be used as a basic resource for making appropriate reactor engineering decisions in practice; as study material for a course on reactor design, operation, or optimization of trickle bed reactors; or in solving practical reactor engineering problems. The authors assume some background knowledge of reactor engineering and numerical techniques.

1 Introduction
2 Hydrodynamics and Flow Regimes
3 Reaction Engineering of Trickle Bed Reactors
4 Flow Modeling of Trickle Beds
5 Reactor Performance and Scale-up
6 Applications and Recent Developments