Design strategy, kinetics equipment

The successful design of industrial reactors lies primarily with the reliability of the experimentally determined parameters used in the scale-up. Consequently, it is imperative to design equipment and experiments that will generate accurate and meaningful data. Unfortunately, there is usually no single comprehensive laboratory reactor that could be used for aU types of reactions and catalysts. In this section we discuss the various types of reactors that can be chosen to obtain the kinetic parameters for a specific reaction system. We closely follow the excellent strategy presented in the article by V. W. Weekman of Mobd Oil. The criteria used to evaluate various types of laboratory reactors are listed in Table 5-3. 

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