Abstract
Familiarized with the steady state behavior and advantages of the trickle bed reactors (TBR), for the past two decades, researchers and process engineers are continuously exploring the unsteady state hydrodynamics of periodically (or cyclic) operated trickle bed reactors to extract even more from its efficiency and performance. Despite its complicated nonlinear behavior that attributes to the process control safety at the commercial scale, cyclic operation of TBR is a promising process intensification technology that has immense potential for implementation on industrial TBR. In this paper, we have summarized and reviewed the research and progresses made in recent years on cyclic operation of TBR and potential applications of various mode of its operation. Several issues associated with its hydrodynamics scale-up and designs have been discussed with an emphasis on shock wave attenuation that arises during flow modulation.
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