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US 12,583,810 B2Granted
Trickle bed reactor
AssigneeSolugen, Inc.
InventorsSean Hunt, Kevin Loftis, Peter Nguyen, Parth Patel
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Abstract
A trickle bed reactor, comprising a plurality of catalyst beds connected in series and progressively increasing in catalyst mass in a direction from upstream to downstream; and a plurality of heat exchangers, wherein each of the heat exchangers is located between two of the plurality of catalyst beds, and wherein each of the heat exchangers does not exchange heat with an outer surface of a vessel that contains any of the catalyst beds.
Claims20
A trickle bed reactor, comprising:
- a plurality of catalyst beds connected in series and progressively increasing in catalyst mass in a direction from upstream to downstream;
- and
- a plurality of heat exchangers, wherein each of the heat exchangers is located between two of the plurality of catalyst beds, wherein each heat exchanger of the plurality of heat exchangers is configured to adjust a temperature of a reaction mixture passing through the heat exchanger to initiate a reaction in a subsequent catalyst bed of the plurality of catalyst beds, and wherein each of the heat exchangers is an external heat exchanger that does not exchange heat with an outer surface of a vessel that contains any of the catalyst beds.
A method for operating a trickle bed reactor, the method comprising:
- passing one or more reactants over a plurality of catalyst beds connected in series and progressively increasing in catalyst mass in a direction from upstream to downstream;
- wherein the trickle bed reactor comprises a plurality of heat exchangers, wherein each of the heat exchangers is located between two of the plurality of catalyst beds, and wherein each of the heat exchangers is an external heat exchanger that does not exchange heat with an outer surface of a vessel that contains any of the catalyst beds;
- converting the one or more reactants to one or more products over the plurality of catalyst beds to form a reaction mixture;
- adjusting a temperature of the reaction mixture to a temperature configured to initiate a reaction in a subsequent catalyst bed of the plurality of catalyst beds;
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- passing the reaction mixture having the adjusted temperature to the subsequent catalyst bed.
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