George Y. Adusei - Branchburg NJ, US Stephen A. Campbell - Corning NY, US Wei Liu - Painted Post NY, US Mitchell E. Odinak - Horseheads NY, US Shantanu Roy - Painted Post NY, US
Assignee:
Corning Incorporated - Corning NY
International Classification:
B01F 3/04
US Classification:
261 97, 261103, 422190, 422220, 422222
Abstract:
A device for distributing fluid into a monolith bed includes a plurality of flow channels stacked in order of decreasing diameter. The flow channels successively split a flow stream into a multiple flow streams prior to the flow stream entering the monolith bed.
Axial flow dehydrogenation reactors comprising multiple catalyst beds formed of honeycomb monoliths, the beds being separated from each other by heating stages to maintain reactant stream temperature, provide low pressure drop and improved conversion efficiency when used alone or in combination with other reactors, e. g. , as reactor upgrades for series reactor systems incorporating radial flow reactor stages.