Hydrodynamics of industrial scale FCCU stripper

Stripper is an important component of a fluid catalytic cracking (FCCU) unit. It strips and recovers the adsorbed/deposited light hydrocarbons on the catalyst particle surface using steam in a counter current flow process. The common flow problems encountered in an FCC stripper unit include channell...

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Main Author: Veluswamy, Ganesh Kumar
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1965
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description Stripper is an important component of a fluid catalytic cracking (FCCU) unit. It strips and recovers the adsorbed/deposited light hydrocarbons on the catalyst particle surface using steam in a counter current flow process. The common flow problems encountered in an FCC stripper unit include channelling, bridging and maldistribution. In this work the hydrodynamics of industrial scale FCC Strippers was studied and investigated using 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations and experiments. The CFD and experimental studies showed that internals and inlet configurations play a vital role in determining the hydrodynamics of the Stripper unit.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-19652017-02-20T06:39:01Z Hydrodynamics of industrial scale FCCU stripper Veluswamy, Ganesh Kumar Stripper is an important component of a fluid catalytic cracking (FCCU) unit. It strips and recovers the adsorbed/deposited light hydrocarbons on the catalyst particle surface using steam in a counter current flow process. The common flow problems encountered in an FCC stripper unit include channelling, bridging and maldistribution. In this work the hydrodynamics of industrial scale FCC Strippers was studied and investigated using 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations and experiments. The CFD and experimental studies showed that internals and inlet configurations play a vital role in determining the hydrodynamics of the Stripper unit. 2010 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1965 en Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Veluswamy, Ganesh Kumar
Hydrodynamics of industrial scale FCCU stripper
title Hydrodynamics of industrial scale FCCU stripper
title_full Hydrodynamics of industrial scale FCCU stripper
title_fullStr Hydrodynamics of industrial scale FCCU stripper
title_full_unstemmed Hydrodynamics of industrial scale FCCU stripper
title_short Hydrodynamics of industrial scale FCCU stripper
title_sort hydrodynamics of industrial scale fccu stripper
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1965