A small diameter platinum wire is perpendicular to gas flow and electrically heated.
Equipment is operated using the DeltaV™ DCS.
Alarms and interlocks are present for process safety.
Possible Experimental Objectives
Use of the temperature – resistance relationship of platinum to determine the average wire temperature.
Use of an energy balance to determine the experimental convective heat transfer coefficient and comparison to heat transfer correlations when catalytic reactions are not occurring.
Determination of the rate of reaction for hydrocarbon oxidation on the surface of the platinum at different concentrations and temperatures using an energy balance.
Analysis of mass transfer limiting reaction kinetics using an energy balance.
Determination of the kinetic order of reactions, reaction rate constants, and activation energies.
