CHEN 3010 – Reaction Engineering Lab-1 Report Experiment 6 – Armfields catalytic reactor (Exercise A)

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ntroduction There are many types of reactor in chemical processes. Such as continuous stirred reactors (CSTR), batch reactors (BR) and packed bed reactors (PBR). Each of type of reactor has differen... t interaction amount reactants and result in different products. The catalytic reactor consisting of three packed bed reactors (two chemical reactors and one biological reactor) was used in this experiment. Two catalysts were considered. Strong cationic exchange resin and immobilized enzyme invertase. It would be worked out by automated analytics technique FIA. Also, this method can be used widely in chemical and industry area. Objectives The purpose of this experiment is to study the sucrose inversion using a catalytic reactor. Data was logged using the CEU software Corresponding kinetic constants, efficiency factors and Thiele’s modulus can be calculated. Experimental setup The experiment consists of control console, three packed bed reactor columns (two chemical packed bed reactor columns and one biological reactor), feed pump, hot water circulation system, optical sensor, and FIA. [Show More]

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