Industrial experience in the scale-up of reactive distillation with examples from C4-chemistry

Optimal design of catalytic distillation columns: A case study on synthesis of TAEE

“…In this work, the experimental measurements ( (2005) and by Rocha et al (1993Rocha et al ( , 1996 were applied for the description of the mass transfer and hydrodynamics in Katapak SP11 ® and Mellapak 750Y ® , respectively. Moreover, based on the fact that the catalytic particles could not be fully wetted particularly in industrial columns due to liquid mal-distribution problems (Beckmann et al 2002;Baur and Krishna, 2002), it was assumed that only 80 % of the packing area is wetted (Brunazzi E., personal communication, September, 2010).…”

Reactive distillation design with considerations of heats of reaction

“…MTBE decomposition (Eq. 10) is becoming the preferred way of producing isobutylene because it can easily be integrated into the refinery and petrochemical sources of isobutylene‐containing C4 streams 49–51. In Figure 12, a basic process design for the MTBE decomposition reactive distillation column is depicted.…”

Industrial Applications of Reactive Distillation: Recent Trends

“…Detailed study of the MTBE production has been presented by a large number of researchers (Stein et al, 2000;Baur et al, 2000;Chen et al, 2000;Baur et al, 2001a;Baur et al, 2001b;Giessler et al, 2001;Lee and Westerberg, 2001;Beckmann et al, 2002;Chen et al, 2002;Grund et al, 2002 andNoeres et al, 2003). Many researchers report excellent work on modeling, control studies in detail.…”