Simulation of Hydrotreating of Vegetable Oil in a Slurry Bubble Column Reactor for Green Diesel Production

International Journal of Technology

Yuswan Muharam¹ 

[1] Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Kampus UI Depok, Depok 16424, Indonesia

关键词: Green diesel;    Modeling;    Simulation;    Slurry bubble column;    Vegetable oil;   

DOI  :  10.14716/ijtech.v9i6.2362

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

来源: Universitas Indonesia

【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this research is to obtain a mathematical model of the hydrotreating of vegetable oil in a slurry bubble column reactor to produce green diesel using an NiMo-P/Al2O3 catalyst. A steady state two-dimensional axisymmetric model of a slurry bubble column reactor of 2.68 m in diameter and 7.14 m in height was developed. The numerical simulation was performed using the model for the reactor operating at 34.5 bar and 598 K. Triglyceride of 5 wt% in dodecane enters the reactor with a very low velocity so that it resembles a batch operation. Hydrogen of 188 mol hydrogen/triglyceride enters the reactor with a velocity of 0.02 m/s. The simulation results show that the vegetable oil (triglyceride) conversion is 97.73%, the product yield is 83.34 wt% and the product purity is 77.23 wt%.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC-ND