Conventional Three-Phase Fixed-Bed Technologies

Leonid B. Datsevich is a faculty member at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

• Introduction.- Technological reasons for the selection of fixed-bed reactors.- Traditional approaches to the design of fixed-bed reactors.- Process flow diagram and principal embodiments of the conventional industrial units.- Analysis of conventional industrial processes.- Purification processes.- Do the conventional fixed-bed reactors possess any potential for the process intensification?.- Unsteady-state operation (feed modulations) as an attempt to intensify processes: Can it be applied on a great scale?.- Alternative industrial fixed-bed technologies.- Conclusions and perspectives.