Design and development to de-bottlenecking – made simple

Reactor Design now hits Main Street - accessible beyond a small group of experts. It can be done now by process engineers and can be treated as another unit operation in their plant design and optimization.

Reactor design workflow illustration one
  • Use one or more from a line of road-tested ready-to-use reactor modules that integrate built-in hydrodynamics, flow characteristics, fluid-solid interactions and heat, mass and phase transfer phenomena with process chemistry/ mechanism and kinetics to provide you the performance of each reactor type and operating mode.
  • It utilizes built-in thermo-physical and transports property databases to carry out the integrated model execution for each reactor module.
  • Models are built on fundamental principles of reaction engineering, and phenomenological and hydrodynamic behaviors of each reactor and avoiding empiricism to the extent possible.
  • Definition and 14-step details of ‘how-to’ build a robust reactor model are provided in a CEP cover-page publication authored by a member of the DIFREX team.
Reactor design workflow illustration one

Follow a simple 3-step process to design the selected reactor or alternate reactors – promptly. Complete design and performance details appear instantly on the Work Page in pop-up plots and tables upon model execution. Use a similar process for development and de-bottlenecking.

Performance comparison of alternate reactors (QTFXB, TFXB, BFB) for 100 TPD PPX production
Comparison of design and operating conditions of alternate reactors (QTFXB, TFXB, BFB)
Projected product distribution for quenched fixed bed: carbon selectivity by carbon number

Zoom in! ....you should find all you need

Decision gate and solution guidance illustration
  • You have reached the Decision Gate with the preliminary design
  • Now, follow recommended steps toward testing, pilot/ demo campaigns (as necessary) to complete the final and detailed design with auxiliary systems, safety shields, emissions controls and reactor operation and control system design or call DIFREX

    • An entrepreneur, engineer or chemist should find the DIFREX model packages useful for innovative catalyst and process developments and monetize new idea or chemistry. The complete package (TECH SUITE™) can be helpful in a variety of tasks carried out routinely by a corporate R&D team for environment, energy, coal, biomass, chemicals, petrochemicals and minerals plants and projects.

Decision gate and solution guidance illustration