Modeling Catalytic Membrane Reactors using an Adaptative Wavelet-Based Collocation Method

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2002

Autores

J. M. Sousa (Autor) FEUP; Paulo Cruz (Autor) FEUP; Fernão. D. Magalhães (Autor) FEUP; Adélio Mendes (Autor) FEUP

Revista

Título: Journal of Membrane Science

Vol. 208

Páginas: 57-68

ISSN: 0376-7388

Editora: Elsevier

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias > Outras ciências da engenharia e tecnologias

CORDIS: Ciências Tecnológicas > Tecnologia > Tecnologia química

Outras Informações

DOI: 10.1016/S0376-7388(02)00175-8

Abstract (EN): For certain operating conditions and reaction schemes, catalytic membrane reactors (CMRs) may present sharp concentration profiles in the membrane. Using conventional fixed grid methods for solving the model equations in such conditions may lead to inaccurate predictions of the reactor’s performance. This is demonstrated for two reaction systems: A⇌B (for which a semi-analytical solution is available) and A⇌B+3C (which describes the cyclohexane dehydrogenation). Simulation results obtained with a fixed grid method using finite differences are compared to those from an adaptive method using an algorithm based on interpolating wavelets. Showing higher accuracy and computational efficiency, the latter proved to be a useful tool in dealing with this kind of problems.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica