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Chemie Ingenieur Technik, Vol.89, No.10, 1385-1390, 2017
3D Modeling of a Catalyst Layer with Transport Pores for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis
Liquid-filled pores of Fischer-Tropsch catalyst lead to slow diffusion of the reactants and can cause internal transport limitations leading to a significant decrease of selectivity and productivity. As an approach to overcome these limitations, transport pores can be added to provide an additional pathway for mass transport. In this work, a 3D isothermal model was developed, which takes the effect of concentration gradients within the transport pores into account. A comparison with a 1D model showed, that a description by a 3D model is necessary for transport pores with diameters larger than 10 mu m.