COPROX fixed bed reactor. Heat transfer schemes

GIUNTA, PABLO; NORMA AMADEO; MIGUEL LABORDE

Lyon

Simposio; 9th Natural Gas Conversion Symposium; 2010

Preferential oxidation of CO (COPROX) is used as the last stage to eliminate CO in the hydrogen stream, when it is used as feed for a PEM fuel-cell. A typical problem of this reactor is the temperature increase due to the exothermicity of the reactions. In this work different schemes of heat transfer in a COPROX fixed bed reactor are analyzed.