Modeling of pyridine synthesis process in a coupled fluidized bed reactor

Abstract

To obtain the optimal operating conditions of a coupled reactor for pyridine synthesis, reactor modeling process is carried out in this paper. During the modeling process, the flow hydrodynamics, heat transfer behavior, inter-phase mass transfer behavior and reaction kinetics were taken into consideration consequently. Further, a regression program based on least square method was proposed to regress the model parameters. The prediction results agreed well with the experimental results with an average deviation of 5.9%. Finally, by setting suitable aim function, the optimal operating conditions of the coupled reactor for pyridine synthesis were determined.