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Published September 1978 | Published
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On inhibiting runaway in catalytic reactors

Abstract

We consider the problem of heat and mass transfer in porous catalyst pellets. Both the steady and time dependent operating characteristics are studied. Accurate approximate equations are derived from the basic governing equations of motion. A nonlinear stability analysis is employed to account for the observation that under certain conditions reactions on catalyst pellets can pass transiently stably into a region which would correspond to instability in the steady state. One consequence of our analysis is a possible control mechanism which inhibits temperature runaway by extending the stable operating characteristics desirable in modern reactors.

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© 1978 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Received by the editors April 14, 1976, and in revised form November 2, 1977. This work was supported in part by the U.S. Army Research Office under Grants DAHC04-75-C-0009, DAAG 29-77-G-0222, the National Science Foundation under MPS 75-05414, MCS 77-25660, and by the U.S. Energy Research and Development Adminstration.

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