investigation of isobutane dehydrogenation in silica membrane reactor based on cfd method

This study presents a 2d computational fluid dynamic (cfd) to investigate the performance of silica membrane reactor (mr) during isobutane dehydrogenation reaction for hydrogen and isobutene production# the proposed cfd model provides the local information of velocity and component concentration for the driving force analysis# the validation of model results was carried out by experimental data and a good agreement between model results and experimental data was achieved# in mr model, a commercial pt/al2o3 catalyst in reaction zone was considered# the effects of some important operating parameters such as reaction temperature and reaction pressure on the performance of silica mr were studied in terms of isobutane conversion and hydrogen recovery# the cfd results showed that the silica mr during isobutane dehydrogenation reaction presents higher performance in terms of isobutane conversion and hydrogen recovery with respect to packed-bed reactor (pbr), in all the studied cases#