Patent ID: 7850928
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: B01J,C07C,C07D,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A process for packing a fixed-bed shell-and-tube reactor with a solid particulate material, with the fixed-bed shell-and-tube reactor having a plurality of reaction tubes, with the process comprising the step of packing two or more production lots of said solid particulate material into said plurality of reaction tubes such that: a) each of said plurality of reaction tubes will have a pressure drop caused by the packing therein of said solid particulate material, wherein said pressure drop of each of said plurality of reaction tubes is in a range of 85 to 115% of an average pressure drop of said plurality of reaction tubes; and b) said solid particulate material packed in each of said plurality of reaction tubes will have a packed layer length being in a range of 90 to 110% of an average packed layer length of said solid particulate material packed in said plurality of reaction tubes; c) wherein said process further comprises the steps of: