Code
3F000211
Duration
01 October 2011 → 31 December 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Engineering and technology
- Automotive engineering
- Catalysis and reacting systems engineering
- Chemical product design and formulation
- General chemical and biochemical engineering
- Process engineering
- Separation and membrane technologies
- Transport phenomena
- Other (bio)chemical engineering
Keywords
detailed kinetics
steam cracking
CFD
Project description
Steam cracking of hydrocarbons is the main process for the production of almost all valuable organic base chemicals, especially ethylene and propylene. The goal of this work is to develop a 3D model to accurately simulate both kinetics and flow in steam cracking reactors. This will allow to predict the influence of process conditions and reactor geometry on conversion, product yields and coking behavior, thus greatly enhancing the design of steam cracking units.