Modeling, Design and Kinetics of Novel Fred – Ugi Environmental Wastes Converter Reactor Plant For Crude Oil Distillates, Minerals and Petrochemical Synthesis

Abstract

This present research thrives to design a waste converter reactor plant (WCRP) with which waste from various sources subjected to combustion and distillation process will generate bio-fuels, solid minerals and petrochemical feed stocks for further applications. Material and energy balance principles were applied in hands with some principles of thermodynamics, mathematics and kinetics. Volume and functional parameters such as length, space time and space velocity, diameter and length of the stirrer and also heat generated per unit volume and temperature of the WCRP were considered in the design process. Simulation of the design models and results were obtained using MATrix LABoratory (MATLAB-Simulink) and other data analyses simulators. Reactor performance equations for the reactor and major equipment were developed from first principle by the application of the principles of conservation of mass and energy. Dimensional and functional parameters of the waste converter reactor plant (WCRP) was also calculated. The results obtained for the dimensional and functional parameters at fractional conversion of 90% are: volume = 1.8m3, length = 1.0m, space time = 16.6hrs, space velocity = 0.06hr-1, heat load = 5.55*105J.