Chemical Engineering Science, Vol.56, No.15, 4489-4503, 2001
Model for the performance of a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) riser reactor: effect of feed atomization
A model for predicting conversions and yield patterns in FCC riser reactor is developed considering heat transfer, gas oil vaporization, catalyst entrainment hydrodynamics, mass transfer, catalytic cracking kinetics and deactivation. The effect of the initial average droplet size generated by feed atomization nozzle on conversion and yield pattern is discussed.
Keywords:reaction engineering;fluid catalytic cracking;feed atomization;vaporization;selectivity;simulation