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Visit us at the GlassTec show in Duesseldorf, October 21-25, 2008: Hall 11, Booth 11 E40 !
ANNA Meeting 2008 Kelowna, Canada: September 28th - October 3rd 2008
Together with our affiliate in Austria we round off our competencies in the PGM world.
MKS Modulares Katalysator SystemTM
Engineering
Here we support our customers to modify or finetune their process conditions in an operation to reach the maximum performance. Catalyst gauzes will not be able to achieve the best possible results in case they are lacking the adequate environment. We take care of providing these conditions which is as important as the catalyst itself.
> Reactor Design Modifications: Finetuning & Gas Flow Control
According to the findings analysed by our simulation tools we can offer different engineering elements to comply with the specific issue, like calculation of distribution plates, defined and targeted pressure control above and below the catalyst system, or the installation of our ceramic systems. Installation of further tools to optimise the gas flow behaviour can be offered as well.
> Process Simulations: Making your reaction visible
By means of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) umicore has developed a wide range of model calculations for any type of burner and pressure setup. We can nowadays quite easily simulate even difficult and highly complex burner setups including filter systems, distribution plates and other specific features of the burner design. This way we can detect weak points of the process and develop strategies to tackle these problems in close cooperation with our customers. It is even possible to determine the temperature distribution and hence the activity within defined layers of the gauze pack which offers further important information on the process characteristics.
These unique process simulations are operated by sophisticated model calculations with specialised programs that are based on theoretical (thermodynamic and physico-chemical) parameters as well as practical results obtained in more than 60 different operations around the world. Furthermore the calculations are taking into account both, the convective and the diffusive gas velocity.