Design and simulation of a reactor for the chlorination of acetone in gaseous phase

The aim of this work was to design a reactor for the production of monochlo roacetone in the gaseous phase. To obtain a high selectivity and yield of t he process, the reactor was proposed as a part of an atmospheric packed rec tification column. The principal reactions take place on the feed stage of the column without packing. The recycling of the unconverted acetone was ca rried out from both the rectifying tin liquid phase) and the stripping sect ions tin gas phase). The reaction heat was removed by evaporation of the li quid acetone. The simulation of such a column was performed using the simul ation program HYSYS. Because of non-standard reaction kinetic expressions, not allowed in the HYSYS program, the reactor had to be described by using fictive streams. The simulation program is very flexible and useful for the simulation and design of this type of column. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Lt d. All rights reserved.