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Carthage Hydrocol, Inc. Brownsville Plant Operations Analysis of Synthesis Reactor Data

Engineering Dev. Group
Report No. 25
Date: March 29, 1952

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In this pdf format, this document has 126 pages and is 138MB.

Cover (113kb)

Introduction (519kb) 3
Scope (1.16MB) 4
Sources of Data (554kb) 8
  Montebello Data 9
Stanolind Data 9
Beacon Data 10
HRI Data 10
Brownsville Design Conditions (657kb) 10
Brownsville Reactors (3.57MB) 13
Reactor Operations (3.74MB) 15
 

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Catalyst Stripping After Shutdown - Circulation 15
  Starting from Scratch 17
Unloading Reactor 17
Reduction before Startup 18
Carbiding 18
Startup 19
Brownsville Data (681kb) 21
Reliability of Brownsville Data 24
  Part 1 (4.57MB)
Part 2 (4.29MB)
Effect of Synthesis Gas Quality Yields (485kb) 43
Space Velocity (3.84MB) 46
Discussion (459kb) 58
Conclusions (558kb) 62
Effect of Operating Variables (384kb) 64
Recommendations (376kb) 65
Acknowledgement (174kb) 66
Appendix (4.95MB) 67