Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:01:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MarcioBDB_DISSERT.pdf: 1427541 bytes, checksum: 4ea4ab1aa3dd7faa960c62967facffc8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-09-30 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / This work aims at the implementation and adaptation of a computational model for the study of the Fischer-Tropsch reaction in a slurry bed reactor from synthesis gas (CO+H2) for the selective production of hydrocarbons (CnHm), with emphasis on evaluation of the influence of operating conditions on the distribution of products formed during the reaction.The present model takes into account effects of rigorous phase equilibrium in a reactive flash drum, a detailed kinetic model able of predicting the formation of each chemical species of the reaction system, as well as control loops of the process variables for pressure and level of slurry phase. As a result, a system of Differential Algebraic Equations was solved using the computational code DASSL (Petzold, 1982). The consistent initialization for the problem was based on phase equilibrium formed by the existing components in the reactor. In addition, the index of the system was reduced to 1 by the introduction of control laws that govern the output of the reactor products. The results were compared qualitatively with experimental data collected in the Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis plant installed at Laborat?rio de Processamento de G?s - CTG?S-ER-Natal/RN / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo a implementa??o e adapta??o de um modelo computacional de equil?brio de fases visando o estudo do processo Fischer- Tropsch em reator leito de lama a partir de g?s de s?ntese (CO + H2) para a produ??o seletiva de hidrocarbonetos (CnHm), com ?nfase na avalia??o da influ?ncia das condi??es operacionais sobre a distribui??o dos produtos formados durante a rea??o. O modelo em quest?o leva em conta efeitos do equil?brio de fases de modo rigoroso num tambor flash reativo, uma cin?tica detalhada que prev? a forma??o de cada componente do sistema reacional, bem como malhas de controle do processo para as vari?veis press?o e n?vel da fase lama. O sistema de equa??es obtido ? do tipo Alg?brico Diferencial, e foi resolvido utilizando-se o c?digo computacional DASSL (Petzold, 1982). A inicializa??o consistente do sistema de equa??es foi feita com base na condi??o de equil?brio de fases inicial formado pelos componentes j? existentes no reator, sendo o ?ndice do sistema reduzido a 1 pela introdu??o das leis de controle que regem a sa?da de produtos do reator. Os resultados obtidos foram comparados qualitativamente com os dados experimentais coletados na planta de s?ntese de Fischer- Tropsch instalada no Laborat?rio de Processamento de G?s do CTG?S-ER em Natal/RN