Question: could you help me design a reactor? it is a continuous hydrogenation reaction. please include catalyst particle size reactor selection justification ( I am thinking

could you help me design a reactor? it is a continuous hydrogenation reaction.

please include catalyst particle size

reactor selection justification ( I am thinking fixed -bed catalytic reactor but feel free to select the approprate one)

reaction kinetics ( it would be helpfull if you can include data reference in case I decide to change any operations condition

rate law and new rate

selectivity is given

weigh of catalyst with detailed calculation and methods

step by step design equation

catalyst and reactor volume and dimension

pressure drop and its importance

space time

material of construction for different parts

I am design the reactor from the scratch from this source ""Improved processing stability in the hydrogenation of dimethyl maleate to -butyrolactone, 1,4-butanediol and tetrahydrofuran'' type it on google it will come up, but instead of dimethyl maleate the reaction starts from dimethyl succinate DMS) any thermal data or correlations might help as well. I have done the mass balance I guess the concentration, rate constant, -r could be calculated. (Coulson Richardson's V6 and levenspiel Chemical engineering books might help) Please! help!

Mass Balance
Material input output Material Molar mass (g/mol)
mol(kmol/hr) Mass flow rate (kg/h) Mass flow rate (kg/h) SA 118.1
x H2O 18.02
water 267.0366 4812 273.2519 4924 MeOH 32.05
mthanol 162.8705 5220 370.2028 11865 DMS 146.16
hydrgen 352.4752 712 0 0 H2O 2.02
DMS 105.8019 15464 2.114122 309 GBL 86.1
GBL 5.33101 459 36.43438 3137 BDO 90.14
BDO 4.870202 439 71.22254 6420 THF 72.12
THF 6.211869 448
Total 27106 27103
1 DMS + 2 H2 1 GBL + 2 MeOH
1 GBL + 2 H2 1 BDO
1 BDO1 THF + H2O
Operaing Conditions
Catalyst CuZn DMS conversion 98%
GBL selection 30%
T 200 BDO selection 64%
P 50

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