Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 1994, 59, 1788-1799
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19941788

Study of Activity Distribution for Consecutive Reactions

Zuzana Letková, Alena Brunovská and Josef Markoš

Laboratory of Reaction Engineering, Slovak Technical University, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Abstract

The optimal pellet activity distribution for a system of consecutive reactions is analyzed numerically. Two cases are studied: the case of unconstrained activity (without predescribed maximal concentration of active component) leading to a Dirac delta activity distribution and the case with upper bound for the activity distribution (concentration of active component can not exceed given maximal value) which leads to a step function profile. As the objective function global selectivity is chosen. Examples of both cases are given. The reaction kinetics is described by Langmuir-Hinshelwood type of equations.