HYDROGENATION OF ETHYLENE IN PACKED-FLUIDIZED BED

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In a fixed bed it was ascertained that the rate of catalytic hydrogenation of ethylene on Nicatalyst was approximately expressed by either the first or the second-order equation, respectively, for two different feed compositions of the reactants. The same reaction was carried out in a packed-fluidized bed in which glass spheres or cylindrical wire nets were used as packing materials. The results showed that the conversion of ethylene was correlated solely with L_mf/u_f and was independent of the fluidizing condition. The concept of contact efficiency will be used to express the performance of the reaction in a packed fluidized bed.