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Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis in Slurry Reactors: Summary and Analysis of the State of the Art - 1982

Van Vuuren, D. S.

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
South Africa

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Table of Contents

1

Introduction

 3

2

Advantages of Fischer-Tropsch Slurry Reactors

 3

3

Important Design Parameters for Slurry Reactors

 6
 

3.1

Flow regime

 6

3.2

Pressure drop

 9

3.3

Hold-ups

 9

3.4

Residence-time distribution and axial mixing

 10

3.5

Heat and mass transfer

 11

3.6

Physical properties

 12

3.7

Intrinsic kinetics

 13

4

Discussion

 13
 

4.1

Comparison of reactors

 13

4.2

Design parameters

 15

5

Conclusions

 18

6

Recommendations

 18

7

Nomenclature

 19

8

References

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