This paper considers a catalyst granule with a porous ceramic chemically inert base and active point centers, at which an exothermic reaction of synthesis takes place. The rate of a chemical reaction depends on temperature by the Arrhenius law. The heat is removed from the catalyst granule surface to the synthesis products by heat transfer. Based on the idea of self-consistent field, a closed system of equations is constructed for calculating the temperatures of the active centers. As an example, a catalyst granule of the Fischer–Tropsch synthesis with active metallic cobalt particles is considered. The stationary temperatures of the active centers are calculated by the timedependent technique by solving a system of ordinary differential equations. The temperature distribution inside the granule has been found for the local centers located on one diameter of the granule and distributed randomly in the granule’s volume. The existence of the critical temperature inside the reactor has been established, the excess of which leads to substantial superheating of local centers. The temperature distribution with local reaction centers differs qualitatively from the granule temperature calculated in the homogeneous approximation. The results of calculations are given.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 91, No. 1, pp. 46–57, January–February, 2018.
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Derevich, I.V., Fokina, A.Y. Mathematical Model of Heat Transfer in the Catalyst Granule with Point Reaction Centers. J Eng Phys Thermophy 91, 40–51 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-018-1717-z
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