Method for loading a chamber with solid particles
AssigneeTotal Fina Elf France
InventorsPierre Crespin, Daniel Barthod, Emmanuelle Petitjean, Marc Lebouteiller
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Abstract
A method wherein the particles are homogeneously distributed like rain to constitute a horizontal bed of particles on the entire section of the chamber (1). The invention is characterised in that it consists in temporarily modifying at least once the loading conditions, so that the profile of the surface (8) of the bed of particles forms, at least at the periphery thereof, an angle α with the horizontal ranging between 6° and 25°, preferably, between 10° and 20°, and in subsequently restoring the loading conditions to obtain a horizontal bed.
Claims13
Method of loading an enclosure (1) with solid particles, particularly a chemical reactor with particles of catalyst, for the purpose of improving the flow of a liquid between these particles during the operation of the reactor, in which the particles are distributed homogeneously like rainfall to establish a horizontal bed of particles over the whole section of said enclosure, this method being characterized in that during the loading, the loading conditions are temporarily modified at least one time so that the profile of the surface (8, 9) of the bed of particles forms, at least at the periphery thereof, an angle α with the horizontal of between 6° and 25°, and preferably between 10° and 20°, and in that the loading conditions are then reinstated in order to obtain a horizontal bed.
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