Water-Gas Shift in Monolithic Reactors

Dokupil et al. [542] described monolithic water-gas shift reactors operated at a gas hourly space velocity of20 000 h for medium temperature shift and 10 000h for low temperature shift. The adiabatic temperature rise in the medium temperature reactor operated at 300 ° C amounted to 68 K, in the low temperature reactor operated at 280 °C a temperature rise of only 15 K was determined. 

The implementation of a declining temperature gradient into a water-gas shift reactor by counter-flow cooling has been discussed extensively in Section 5.2.1. 

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