PARAMETRIC SENSITIVITY ASSESSMENT OF CYCLONITE PRODUCTION IN A BATCH REACTOR

PARAMETRIC SENSITIVITY ASSESSMENT OF CYCLONITE PRODUCTION IN A BATCH REACTOR

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Juan Carlos Ojeda Toro
Izabela Dobrosz Gómez
Miguel Ángel Gómez García

Abstract

This study assessed the parametric sensitivity of cyclonite production in a batch reactor. The objective was to establish safe operation conditions for this highly exothermic reaction. The reaction rate law was adjusted using experimental data published in the related literature. Mass and energy balances were reparametrized. Thus, reaction temperature sensitivity criteria were established as a function of initial reaction and cooling temperatures. Critical reaction conditions were defined using temperature sensitivity, temperature conversion, and the locus of the maximum temperature trajectories. A critical heat generation potential (M) equal to 34 was defined along with the following runaway critical conditions: a Semenov number (ψ) equal to 0.684, a heat of reaction parameter (B) equal to 15, and an Arrhenius-type number (γ) of 20. Therefore, temperature conversion profiles specify a critical relation between the cooling and heat potential (N/M) of 2.5786.

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Juan Carlos Ojeda Toro, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Chemical engineer, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales, MsC. in Chemical Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales.  Reactive Processes Intensified with Separation and Advanced Materials Research Group (PRISMA for is initials in Spanish). Chemical Engineering Department, Engineering and Architecture Faculty.

Izabela Dobrosz Gómez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Chemical, Technological University of Lodz (Poland). MsC. Engineering, Technological University of Lodz (Poland). Associate professor, Physics and Chemistry Department, Exact and Natural Sciences Faculty, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales.

Miguel Ángel Gómez García, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Chemical engineer, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales. MsC. in Chemical Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. PhD. in Chemical Engineering, Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I (France). Associate professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales. Reactive Processes Intensified with Separation and Advanced Materials Research Group (PRISMA for is initials in Spanish).