Reza Eslamloueyan - Corresponding Author Address: School of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz ۷۱۳۴۵, Iran
Reza Vakili

This paper investigates the design of a shell-and-tube fixed bed reactor for direct dimethyl ether (DME) production from syngas in industrial scale. For this purpose, the applied design principles in similar industrial reactors are considered, and also, a one-dimensional steady-state homogeneous model is used to simulate the reactor. The simulation results show that the designed reactor can produce the same amount of DME (2416.1 kmol/hr) as the industrial reactor one whichoperates based on indirect process, and at the same time the proposed reactor is more economical owing to its smaller initial investment and higher reaction conversions.

Fixed bed reactor; Direct dimethyl ether (DME) synthesis; Reactor design