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Ferrychan:

Why did you wait until the last minute, where you now have a time constraint, to look or ask for help? By doing so, you've caused yourself potential harm and put the pressure on other persons to come to your assistance. For example, experienced people on this Forum have proven in the past that they are more than willing to help; but their time and dedication is limited also. If you don't give us ALL the basic data, you are forcing all of us to generalize, speculate, and make false assumptions regarding your needs.

As a ChE student you should know that it makes a lot of difference whether you are talking about a tubular, fixed bed reactor designed for exotherm or endotherm heat transfer OR a purely fixed bed, adiabatic reactor that uses the reaction fluids to carry the exotherm away. By giving us all a minimal of generalities, you are forcing us into a discussion of every imaginable fixed bed type of reactor. This is not fair to the respondents nor to yourself. Valuable time and effort will be wasted on the wrong assumptions.

Please be specific and intelligent in describing your needs and giving all the necessary basic data related to your problem and specific question(s). Otherwise, you are going to receive a lot of responses (if you're lucky) that go from one extreme to another - and they all probably won't apply to your needs. I'm going to recite a phrase that I've often said to young engineers working under me: "If you can't describe the problem, you are incapable of resolving it."

Learn how to describe and communicate your problem; this is the basic beginning of a successful, professional ChE. In order to obtain results from others, you must take the responsibility to communicate accurately and well. Let us have a good description of your problem and you will see that you will have good results.

Good Luck.