Patent ID: 9616406
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: B01J,Y10T

Claim:
1. A method of installing a multiplicity of monoliths comprising; stacking the multiplicity of monoliths side by side and on top of each other in a heterogeneously catalyzed, gas phase dehydrogenation reactor, wherein each monolith is formed of a ceramic block having multiple parallel channels, and with the parallel channels of one monolith mutually aligned with the parallel channels of an adjacent monolith through which a reaction gas mixture can flow through the reactor for conducting heterogeneously catalyzed, gas phase dehydrogenation reactions, and the multiplicity of monoliths are separated from each other and from an inner wall of the reactor by an arrangement of mats each mat comprising an intumescent mat, wherein the mats are enclosed and sealed within a polymeric film under reduced pressure, and unsealing the polymeric film enclosure of the arranged mats in the reactor to seal the monoliths from each other and from the inner wall of the reactor.