Patent ID: 8524156
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: B01J,G01K

Abstract:
1. A tube bundle reactor for carrying out endothermic or exothermic gas phase reactions, comprising a tube bundle of reactor tubes filled with catalyst, having their ends fastened tightly in tube sheets, a fluid heat carrier flowing around the tubes during operation, a shell enclosing the tube bundle, a gas inlet head spanning one of the tube sheets, a gas outlet head spanning the other tube sheet, the reactor tubes being in fluid communication with the gas inlet and outlet heads, at least one stage thermometer installed in a thermometer tube disposed in the tube bundle for determining temperature profiles, wherein the at least one stage thermometer ( wherein the at least one stage thermometer ( wherein the at least one stage thermometer ( wherein the thermometer tube is in fluid communication with the gas inlet head ( wherein the spacings (x(TM)) of adjacent individual thermometers (TM) of the at least one stage thermometer (