Optimization of industrial styrene reactor design for two objectives using the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA) is studied. Both adiabatic and steam-injected reactors are considered. The two objectives are maximization of styrene production and styrene selectivity. The study shows that styrene reactor design can be optimized easily and reliably for two objectives by NSGA. It provi...

The paper discussed the development of a simulator for the Programmable CVD Reactor system using the modular simulation approach. The design of the Programmable Reactor lends itself very naturally to a modular approach because of the segmented showerhead design while each segment is a fairly complex component, with individually controllable reactant gas supply and residual gas exhaust, the desi...

The design and operation of a simple, optically-accessible modular reactor for probing thermal thin film deposition processes, such as atomic layer deposition processes (ALD) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD), is described. This reactor has a nominal footprint of 225 cm(2) and a mass of approximately 6.6 kg, making it small enough to conveniently function as a modular component of an optical ...

A fixed bed reactor design program is developed by the use of Java JDK1.7 algorithm language with Eclipse program as the platform. The program selects five common fix bed reactor process flows to calculate the main structure parameters of the reactor. With the good interface, the program can output the corresponding results after inputting the kinetics and thermodynamics parameters of the react...

Significance: Jun 30, 2002 Identified By: NRC Item Type: FIN Finding INADEQUATE DIGITAL FEEDWATER SYSTEM DESIGN AND INADVERTENT GROUNDING OF PLANT EQUIPMENT RESULTS IN REACTOR SCRAM A digital feedwater control system design weakness, in conjunction with the inadvertent grounding of a pressure transmitter during an instrument maintenance surveillance, resulted in a manual reactor scram due to in...