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Simulation Of Sulfur Trioxide Production In An Adiabatic Multistage Catalytic Reactor

The production of sulfur trioxide from sulfur dioxide gas is already gaining global importance and thus this process needs to be studied so that the conversion of sulfur dioxide is assured during its implementation in the chemical industry especially in sulfuric acid industry. It is possible to simu...

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Main Author: Rozman, Anis Salwani
Format: Monograph
Language:English
Published: Universiti Sains Malaysia 2018
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T Technology
TP Chemical Technology
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spelling my.usm.eprints.54081 http://eprints.usm.my/54081/ Simulation Of Sulfur Trioxide Production In An Adiabatic Multistage Catalytic Reactor Rozman, Anis Salwani T Technology TP Chemical Technology The production of sulfur trioxide from sulfur dioxide gas is already gaining global importance and thus this process needs to be studied so that the conversion of sulfur dioxide is assured during its implementation in the chemical industry especially in sulfuric acid industry. It is possible to simulate sulfur trioxide production process with a well-developed simulation software such as Aspen Plus despite using the numerical simulation like previous research works. Aspen Plus Version 8.8 is used in this research study to simulate an adiabatic multistage catalytic reactor where sulfur dioxide gas is oxidized into sulfur trioxide gas in the presence of vanadium pentoxide catalyst. The simulation results obtained are compared with literature for validation. The simulated results obtained by Aspen Plus generate 4% of general average error in terms of the sulfur dioxide conversion, temperature and pressure outlet. From the sensitivity analysis conducted, it is found that the molar composition of sulfur trioxide increases lightly up to 0.082 at 2.5 bar of reactor inlet pressure while the reactor inlet temperature shows no significant effect on the molar composition of sulfur trioxide generated. Universiti Sains Malaysia 2018-06-01 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/54081/1/Simulation%20Of%20Sulfur%20Trioxide%20Production%20In%20An%20Adiabatic%20Multistage%20Catalytic%20Reactor_Anis%20Salwani%20Rozman_K4_2018.pdf Rozman, Anis Salwani (2018) Simulation Of Sulfur Trioxide Production In An Adiabatic Multistage Catalytic Reactor. Project Report. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Kimia. (Submitted)
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TP Chemical Technology
Rozman, Anis Salwani
Simulation Of Sulfur Trioxide Production In An Adiabatic Multistage Catalytic Reactor
description The production of sulfur trioxide from sulfur dioxide gas is already gaining global importance and thus this process needs to be studied so that the conversion of sulfur dioxide is assured during its implementation in the chemical industry especially in sulfuric acid industry. It is possible to simulate sulfur trioxide production process with a well-developed simulation software such as Aspen Plus despite using the numerical simulation like previous research works. Aspen Plus Version 8.8 is used in this research study to simulate an adiabatic multistage catalytic reactor where sulfur dioxide gas is oxidized into sulfur trioxide gas in the presence of vanadium pentoxide catalyst. The simulation results obtained are compared with literature for validation. The simulated results obtained by Aspen Plus generate 4% of general average error in terms of the sulfur dioxide conversion, temperature and pressure outlet. From the sensitivity analysis conducted, it is found that the molar composition of sulfur trioxide increases lightly up to 0.082 at 2.5 bar of reactor inlet pressure while the reactor inlet temperature shows no significant effect on the molar composition of sulfur trioxide generated.
format Monograph
author Rozman, Anis Salwani
author_facet Rozman, Anis Salwani
author_sort Rozman, Anis Salwani
title Simulation Of Sulfur Trioxide Production In An Adiabatic Multistage Catalytic Reactor
title_short Simulation Of Sulfur Trioxide Production In An Adiabatic Multistage Catalytic Reactor
title_full Simulation Of Sulfur Trioxide Production In An Adiabatic Multistage Catalytic Reactor
title_fullStr Simulation Of Sulfur Trioxide Production In An Adiabatic Multistage Catalytic Reactor
title_full_unstemmed Simulation Of Sulfur Trioxide Production In An Adiabatic Multistage Catalytic Reactor
title_sort simulation of sulfur trioxide production in an adiabatic multistage catalytic reactor
publisher Universiti Sains Malaysia
publishDate 2018
url http://eprints.usm.my/54081/1/Simulation%20Of%20Sulfur%20Trioxide%20Production%20In%20An%20Adiabatic%20Multistage%20Catalytic%20Reactor_Anis%20Salwani%20Rozman_K4_2018.pdf
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