In the design of water gas shift reactors, the performance of catalysts is not known a priori and hence having a general kinetic expression will be of much help. Computational Fluid Dynamic study was carried out to investigate the performance of a packed bed reactor for different feed compositions using five commonly used types of macro kinetic models. User Defined Functions were developed for the reaction rate to predict the CO conversion in the reactor. The effects of temperature and time factor on CO conversion were studied. The Langmuir-Hinshelwood model gave the best prediction for H2 rich mixtures. The Temkin model was better for higher CO concentrations, whereas the other models gave large deviations for the fixed bed reactor. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.

Muruganandam L

Department of Chemical Engineering

School of Chemical Engineering

Vellore Campus

Byron Smith R.J

Murthy Shekhar S.

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The worlds progression towards the Hydrogen economy is facilitating the production of hydrogen from various resources. In the carbon based hydrogen production, Water gas shift reaction is the intermediate step used for hydrogen enrichment and CO reduction in the synthesis gas. This paper makes a critical review of the developments in the modeling approaches of the reaction for use in designing and simulating the water gas shift reactor. Considering the fact that the rate of the reaction is dependent on various parameters including the composition of the catalyst, the active surface and structure of the catalyst, the size of the catalyst, age of the catalyst, its operating temperature and pressure and the composition of the gases, it is difficult to narrow down the expression for the shift reaction. With different authors conducting experiments still to validate the kinetic expressions for the shift reaction, continuous research on different composition and new catalysts are also reported periodically. Moreover the commercial catalyst manufacturers seldom provide information on the catalyst. This makes the task of designers difficult to model the shift reaction. This review provides a consolidated listing of the various important kinetic expressions published for both the high temperature and the low temperature water gas shift reaction along with the details of the catalysts and the operating conditions at which they have been validated.

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