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Tracking The Heavy Metal Contaminants Entrained With The Flow Into A Trickle Bed Hydrotreating Reactor Packed With Different Catalyst Shapes Using Newly Developed Noninvasive Dynamic Radioactive Particle Tracking, Binbin Qi, Omar Farid, Alexandre França Velo, Jihane Mendil, Sebastián Uribe, Yasunobu Kaneko, Kei Sakakura, Yasuhito Kagota, Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A newly developed modified Dynamic Radioactive Particle Tracking system (DRPT) was used to investigate the heavy metal contaminants deposition locations in different catalyst beds, sphere, cylinder, trilobe, and quadrilobed in Trickle Bed Reactors. In the present paper, Kernel Density Estimator (KDE) was used to estimate the probability density distributions of heavy metal contaminants depositions in terms of bed radius height. The result shows that the four cases have similar probability density distribution in terms of radius, while the spherical catalyst has the larger distribution range in terms of bed height. The heavy metal deposition is directly related to the pressure …