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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1994
William J Koves, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
UOP, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Abstract
A reactor arrangement and process for indirectly contacting a reactant stream with a heat exchange stream uses an arrangement of corrugated heat exchange plates and a plate containing protrusions between the corrugated plates to control temperature conditions by varying the number and/or the projection of the protrusions between the plates. The reactor arrangement and process of this invention may be used to operate a reactor under isothermal or other controlled temperature conditions. The variation in protrusion arrangements within a single heat exchange section is highly useful in maintaining a desired temperature profile in an arrangement having a cross-flow of heat exchange medium relative to reactants. The protrusion arrangement offers a simplified method to eliminate or minimize the typical step-wise approach to isothermal conditions.