Liquid Saturation in Cocurrent Upflow Fixed-Bed Reactors :
The State-of-the-art Correlation
Chem. Eng. Sci.,   52, 4239-4247 (1997).
Z. Bensetiti,
F. Larachi,  B.P.A. Grandjean
Department of Chemical Engineering Laval University
Sainte-Foy Québec G1K 7P4 CANADA
G.Wild
Laboratoire des Sciences du génie chimique de Nancy
1 rue Granville BP 451, Nancy 54001 FRANCE


  • Abstract:


On the basis of a large data bank consisting of more than 2,600 experimental results published for cocurrent upflow fixed bed reactors, a state-of-the-art correlation for the prediction of external liquid saturation was proposed. The correlation relied upon combination of dimensional analysis and artificial neural networks which allowed identification of 6 most expressive dimensionless groups. Robustness of proposed correlation was assessed by testing it on a huge test data file, and the limitations of the literature correlations with regard to their generalization capabilities were demonstrated.

  • Literature Data Review


Table of the complete experimental data ranges
References

·  Sate-of-The-Art Liquid Saturation Correlation:


You can get the
satcor.zip (or satcor.tar.Z ) file to compute the liquid saturation.

The file contains the following source codes:

satcor.xls

Excel 5 worksheet

satcor.bas

Quick-basic code

satcor.f,
param.w

Fortran code with its
model parameter file

·  The neural correlation was developped with the software NNFit