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    Design of Cooled Tubular Reactor Systems

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    This journal critique summarizes the article "Design of Cooled Tubular Reactor Systems" which presents a design methodology for optimizing tubular reactor systems. The methodology considers various tradeoffs like pressure drop, heat removal, tube length, and temperature peak. It also analyzes the annual capital and operating costs to determine the most economical design. The optimum designs tend to have larger tube diameters and smaller pressure drops when reaction rates are low, and smaller tube diameters with larger pressure drops when reaction rates are high. The methodology provides insights that can help optimize industrial tubular reactor processes.

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    This journal critique summarizes the article "Design of Cooled Tubular Reactor Systems" which presents a design methodology for optimizing tubular reactor systems. The methodology considers various tradeoffs like pressure drop, heat removal, tube length, and temperature peak. It also analyzes the annual capital and operating costs to determine the most economical design. The optimum designs tend to have larger tube diameters and smaller pressure drops when reaction rates are low, and smaller tube diameters with larger pressure drops when reaction rates are high. The methodology provides insights that can help optimize industrial tubular reactor processes.

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    This journal critique summarizes the article "Design of Cooled Tubular Reactor Systems" which presents a design methodology for optimizing tubular reactor systems. The methodology considers various tradeoffs like pressure drop, heat removal, tube length, and temperature peak. It also analyzes the annual capital and operating costs to determine the most economical design. The optimum designs tend to have larger tube diameters and smaller pressure drops when reaction rates are low, and smaller tube diameters with larger pressure drops when reaction rates are high. The methodology provides insights that can help optimize industrial tubular reactor processes.

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    Design of Cooled Tubular Reactor Systems

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    This journal critique summarizes the article "Design of Cooled Tubular Reactor Systems" which presents a design methodology for optimizing tubular reactor systems. The methodology considers various tradeoffs like pressure drop, heat removal, tube length, and temperature peak. It also analyzes the annual capital and operating costs to determine the most economical design. The optimum designs tend to have larger tube diameters and smaller pressure drops when reaction rates are low, and smaller tube diameters with larger pressure drops when reaction rates are high. The methodology provides insights that can help optimize industrial tubular reactor processes.

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    JOURNAL CRITIQUE

    “Design of Cooled Tubular Reactor Systems”

    Corcuera, Maria Glayza A.

    Che191-1- B03
    Design of Cooled Tubular Reactor Systems
    William L. Luyben
    November 3, 2001

    The article entitled “Design of Cooled Tubular Reactor System” was published under

    Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. The author is a professor in Mountaintop Campus

    Lehigh University under Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His research interests include

    design and control of coupled reactor-column processes and plant recycle stream management.

    The study circulated about the design methodology for considering all complex tradeoffs in a

    reactor. He also considers the economic aspect on how is to minimize the total annual cost of the

    process considering the following: annual capital cost of the reactor, catalyst, compressor, heat

    exchanger, and furnace; and the operating cost of the compressor and furnace. He also considered

    the following criteria in optimizing the best parameters for a tubular reactor.

    The study encircled about the assumption that tubular reactor use is a plug flow reactor,

    which means there are no radial temperature or concentration gradients and considering the

    following factors that contributes major effects in the process. Tubular reactors are diverse in the

    industry particularly with exothermic gas-phase reactions that require a solid catalyst which is

    operated and works adiabatically. This paper presents a design methodology for considering all

    these complex tradeoffs in aa tubular reactors including the pressure drop, heat removal, tube

    length and temperature peak. Pressure drop through the reactor is important because of

    compression costs of the gas recycle and is reduced by using large diameter tubes because of the

    smaller velocities. Heat removal is also important in cooled reactors. Since the cost is also

    considered, economic value of the equipment is also analyzed in this paper like the following the

    annual capital cost of the reactor, catalyst, compressor, heat exchanger, and furnace; and the
    operating cost of the compressor and furnace. As a result, showing the optimum design for the

    system are having larger tube diameter and small pressure drops. Since there are reactions involved

    as the reaction rates increases reactor size and recycle flows decrease, which leads to optimum

    designs with smaller tube diameters and larger reactor pressure drops.

    As part of my analysis in a technical aspect, first thing is the figures or graphs provided by

    the author as a reader it is not easy for me to read the graph and also, he should only provide the

    most important graphs for results so it is more convenient to understand and analyze. Most tubular

    reactors are designed from pilot-plant experiments that explore the impact of tube diameter on

    reactor performance and it is one of the good things about his study that he tried his process into a

    pilot scale which is more practical in a way that if this process is feasible or not. Other thing is that

    the flow of the study is vogue and as a reader it is not easy to identify of he is identifying the

    methodology or if it is a result already. All in all, in his study he provided a new understanding

    regarding into tubular reactors that can benefit the industry.

    In conclusion, the most important thing is knowing the most economical way in order to

    help the industry to be more efficient especially in the process and in the cost. Since tubular

    reactors are widely used in the industry considering all the factors that may optimize that process

    is really a big help. The overall all process may use a reference for further studies. Lastly, the

    author gives justice on what he wants to pin point.

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