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The modeling of adiabatic and non-adiabatic reactors, using three cooling mediums in the shell side of a shell and tube reactor in cocurrent and countercurrent flow regimes has been conducted. The cooling mediums used in this research are saturated water and methanol feed gas to a reactor which is preheated in the shell side and a special type of oil. The results of adiabatic reactor modeling show good compatibility with the data received from a commercial plant. The results of non-adiabatic reactor modeling showed that more methanol conversion can be achieved in a lower length of reactor, even though in some cases the maximum temperature in the tube side of the reactor is more than the deactivation temperature of the catalyst.
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Nasrollahi, F., Bakeri, G., Ismail, A.F. et al. Development of a model for dimethyl ether non-adiabatic reactors to improve methanol conversion. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 30, 1867–1875 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-013-0138-0
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