1. Process-oriented approach towards catalyst design and optimisation
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Mohammad Reza Abbasi, Federico Galvanin, Andrew John Blacker, Eva Sorensen, Yiping Shi, Philip W. Dyer, and Asterios Gavriilidis
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Catalysis ,Optimisation ,Process synthesis ,Conceptual design ,Kinetics estimation ,Chemistry ,QD1-999 - Abstract
Translation of catalysts developed in academia to industrial end-users remains a challenge due to a lack of knowledge about the impact of catalyst attributes on the whole process and vice versa. A systematic methodology is proposed that assesses these in terms of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). As a case study, the dehydration of butanol to butenes and dibutyl ether is considered over H-ZSM5 and H-Beta catalysts. It is demonstrated that catalysts should be designed for complete conversion and high butene selectivity, as removal of unreacted 1-butanol requires a complex separation due to the thermo-physical properties of the product mixture.
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- 2022
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