Design and Implementation of a Micro Reactor for Evaluation of Zeolite Catalyst Performance

Micro reactor systems are one of the most common equipment for determining the selectivity of catalysts which are used in fluidized catalytic cracking process in refinery. Up to now lots of researches have been conducted on constructing and improving these systems. In this study, a micro reactor system was designed and implemented and cumene was used as its feed. This system was utilized to examine industrial Abadan refinery catalyst activity and some samples of pure HX and HY zeolites at the temperature of 350-550oC. The main advantage of this system is its simple application, the acceptable accuracy and its economic price of constructing in comparison with commercial micro activity testing setups.

کلیدواژه ها:

micro reactor ، zeolite Y ، catalytic cracking ، FCC ، conversion