CATALYTIC COMBUSTION OF NATURAL GAS IN A FIXED BED REACTOR WITH FLOW REVERSAL

A new application of the fixed bed catalytic reactor with flow reversal for combustion of natural gas is investigated by mathematical modeling and computer simulation. Comparison between the results obtained for this new reactor and those for a classic catalytic fixed bed is made. Inexpensive perovskite type catalysts containing no noble metals were used. It is shown that an appropriate choice of operating parameters (concentration and temperature of input gas mixture, superficial gas velocity, size and shape of catalyst and inert material, volumetric ratio between catalyst and inert material in the bed) allows for a methane combustion at must lower temperatures in the reactor with flow reversal than in a classic catalytic reactor. Under such a low temperature combustion, no nitrogen oxides are produced.

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