Small-scale testing of catalysts for

Advantages, Possibilities, and Limitations of Small-Scale Testing of Catalysts for Fixed-Bed Processes... 

The above unsuccesful attempt at downscaling of a laboratory trickle-flow reactor which was made some 30 years ago, suggests that representative testing of practical catalysts for trickle-flow processes can only be done in relatively large pilot plant reactors. However, as will be clear from the discussion in earlier parts of this paper, the technique of catalyst bed dilution with fine inert particles has opened the way to small-scale testing of catalysts for these processes as well. 

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