Analysis Of Parametric Sensibility Of The Process Of Production Of Cyclohexanol

The main objective of this paper is to carry out a parametric sensibility analysis for a cyclohexanol production multiphase reactor. Firstly, the mathematical steady-state model validated with industrial data, based on mass, energy and momentum balances, was submitted to a fractional factorial design. This method allows the understanding of interactions between variables with advantages over conventional methods, which involve changing one variable while fixing the others at certain levels. From this, some variables could be neglected and a complete factorial design could be developed. Using this procedure was possible to identify not only the main effects of the variables, but also the interaction effects among these variables. The behavior of the cyclohexanol reactor was extensively studied bearing in mind the determination of control strategies and optimization. © 2002 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.10C781786Box, G.E.P., Hunter, W.G., Hunter, J.S., (1978) Statistics for experimenters. An introduction to design, data analysis and model building, , Wiley, New YorkSantana, P.L., Mathematical Modeling for three phase reactor: dterministic, neural and hybrid models (1999) PhD Thesis, , (in Portuguese), School of Chemical Engineering, Unicamp, São Paulo, BrazilToledo, E.C.V., Santana, P.L., Maciel, M.R.W., Maciel Filho, R., Dynamic Modelling of a Three-Phase Catalytic Slurry Reactor (2002) Chemical Engineering Science, , To appear in. presented at 5th International Conference on Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reactor Engineering - GLS 5, 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering. Melbourne, Australi