Formaldehyde Reactor Process
DataCards
Use case · process engineering · Formox

Formaldehyde reactor control.

Multitubular reactor, Fe-Mo catalyst, 10,000 tubes. The Process deck shows the reactor along the tube, its safe operating window, pressure drop and catalyst ageing, with setpoint recommendations. The Business deck values operation and the catalyst change at current prices.Layout for the DataCards build · simulated plant data · placeholder kinetics, limits, ageing and prices · not for operation

Yield

Hot spot

Runaway sensitivity

Pressure drop

Catalyst activity

Formalin output

Process schematic

Recommendations

Control variableHistory (72 h)ObservedRecommended

Apply recommendations

Ignore

Accept

Along the tube

observed · with rec.

Main goal

Operating window

today’s catalyst

Trend view

Trend

Limits

Contribution margin

Margin per t HCHO

Margin per year

Catalyst change

Methanol price

HCHO price, 100 % basis

Steam credit

CO₂ price

Catalyst run economics

Economics per hour

at current prices, €
NowWith rec.Δ

Margin €/h · 4 days, forecast 24 h

history at current prices

Catalyst charge

Downtime for the change

Change scenarios

average over the run
Change atday€/hΔ €k/a

Goal and constraints

Main goal of the recommendation
The recommendation also values catalyst life: a lower hot spot slows molybdenum loss and the pressure-drop rise.