Mitra Bahri - Islamic Azad Universitiy- mahshahr branch
Abbasali Khodadadi - Catalysis and Nanostructure Materials Laboratory, University College of Engineering, University of Tehran
Giti Abolhamd - Catalysis and Nanostructure Materials Laboratory, University College of Engineering, University of Tehran
Alireza Mansouri - Abadan Refinery

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.

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