Catalytic test for evaluation of the deactivation of catalysts employed at the FCC
International Journal of Development Research
Catalytic test for evaluation of the deactivation of catalysts employed at the FCC
Received 10th May 2020; Received in revised form 17th June 2020; Accepted 29th July 2020; Published online 30th August 2020
Copyright © 2020, Diego Santana da Silva et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The time-scale deactivation of the catalysts used in heterogeneous catalytic processes is profoundly significant in the industry's expenditure. Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) is highly impacted by this phenomenon, requiring the constant regeneration of these materials. Given this problem, this work intended to provide - to the students of the Chemical Engineering and Oil and Gas Engineering courses at the Salvador University (UNIFACS), and the students of the Graduate Program in Chemical Engineering (PPEQ) at the Polytechnic School of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) – one active learning, in the application of the theoretical concepts of some specific disciplines. This methodology was made possible by developing a bench-scale unit on the deactivation and regeneration of catalysts and additives used at the FCC. The unit reaction system features a stainless-steel reactor with a fixed bed, heated by an electric resistance furnace, with borosilicate saturator and upstream heater.
