Veg-gasinstituut N.v.

Antonius J Van Wingerden

John Wilhelm Geus

Andries Q Boon

This invention relates to a method of conducting a chemical reaction in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst, in which a feedstock is passed through a catalytic reactor, said reactor comprising a solid reactor bed with a catalytically active material present thereon, and at least one heat supplying and/or discharging reactor wall, and in which the catalyst bed consists of elementary particles of material sintered together and to one side of the wall, there being no sintered material present on the other side of the reactor wall, and in which the maximum distance in meters (x.sub.max) of any point of the reactor bed to a nearest heat supplying and/or discharging wall is determined by the following formula: ##EQU1##

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Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Antonius J Van Wingerden