Hi, need help with isothemral water gas shift which is different from high temo or low temp shift.
I wanted to knowwhether it can be modeled as RGIBBS (or RSTOIC?) for the latter you need to know conversion beforrehand.
does anybody have any links/info on how typical iso shift reactors work(Linde, Lurgi etcZ) and what is preferred steam/CO ratio at inlet and typical per passconversion of CO? how close is it to equilibrium?
Just to add, these are used in hydrogen productrion plants for methanol and ammonia.
I am designing a reactor starting from simulation for one such hydrogen production plant of worldscale capacity( 70 KTPY).
The isothermal temperature I have seen in literature is around 250-260C for these reactors.
Please let me know the simulation approach fpor design. the inlet feed is coming from a primary reformer and has steam in excess, almost 4:1, steam : CO ratio on molar basis.
Pressure is around 22 bar