An experimental and mathematical modeling study of a simulated countercurrent moving bed
chromatographic reactor for oxidative coupling of methane to ethane and ethylene is reported.
The experiments were done in a laboratory-scale three-section simulated moving bed reactor.
Operating conditions were deduced from independent experiments in a microcatalytic fixed-bed reactor and from adsorber dynamics studies. With a YBa2Zr3O9.5 catalyst and activated
charcoal adsorbent, the sum of the ethane and ethylene yields at optimum simulated moving
bed operating conditions was 45%. Numerical simulations of the reactor performance were done
and compared with experimental results.
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