Chemical Process Engineering & Simulation

Aspen Plus Fluidized Bed Reactor Simulation: Fluidized Bed Reactor (FBR) The fluidized bed reactor is a reactor in which the fluid from the bottom of the reactor keeps the solid catalysts suspended inside the reactor. This reactor has an advantage over traditional packed bed reactor because it has a better heat and mass transfer . In industry, the fluidized bed reactor is most prominently used to produce products which cannot be efficiently manufactured using more commonly using more commonly used reactors (Towler, 2012). A fluidized bed reactor is used to produce a variety of products. In the fuel industry, a fluidized bed reactor is used to produce gasoline, propane, butane, and propylene (Washington University, 2016). While these are some of the common uses of fluidized bed reactor, good mixing, and energy efficient nature of the reactor allows a fluidized bed to be used in producing a less conventional fluidized bed reactor product such as photovoltaic cells . REC...