Modeling and assessment of novel configurations to enhance methanol production in industrial mega-methanol synthesis plant

In the current study, the utilization of parallel reactors instead of series configurations in the mega methanol plants is investigated. In the conventional reactor (CR), two parallel fixed bed water-cooled reactors are in series with a gas-cooled reactor. In this study, three novel configurations are proposed in which the gas-cooled is in parallel with two water-cooled reactors and the feed is divided in different manners between the reactors....