Conventional Plate Heat-Exchanger Reactors

The idea of combining endothermic with exothermic reactions has already been proposed by Reay, and is the so-called Catalytic Plate Reactor (CPR) [462]. 

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In addition to the harmonization of the underlying physical and chemical processes, the catalytic-plate heat exchanger offers a cost-effective alternative to both conventional multitubular reactors and catalytic microreactors for industrial... 

A micro-reactor as part of a practical fuel processor is generaUy designed as a plate heat exchanger, a conventional heater being shown in Figure 7.3a. If only one... 

Taking into consideration that another two reactors (low temperature shift and preferential oxidation reactors) are required downstream of the high temperature water-gas shift, at least in a conventional fuel processor/low temperature PEM fuel cell system, the calculations demonstrate that it is difficult to pre-heat a chain of reactors without an excessive time demand. Other measures and functionalities become possible when plate heat-exchanger technology is applied, which may help to solve this problem. 

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