Introduction -- Technological reasons for the selection of fixed-bed reactors -- Traditional approaches to the design of fixed-bed reactors -- Process flow diagram and principal embodiments of the conventional industrial units -- Analysis of conventional industrial processes -- Purification processes -- Do the conventional fixed-bed reactors possess any potential for the process intensification? -- Unsteady-state operation (feed modulations) as an attempt to intensify processes: Can it be applied on a great scale? -- Alternative industrial fixed-bed technologies -- Conclusions and perspectives.

Conventional Three-Phase Fixed-Bed Technologies analyzes conventional fixed-bed reactors such as trickle-bed, bubble (packed) column, and multitubular reactors with regard to process efficiency, design and safety. This book examines the shortcomings of these technologies with regard to the possibility of substantially improving industrial processes, applying modern concepts in mass transfer, kinetics and process design to process development. In addition to this enlightening analysis, the author shares the most extensive first-hand knowledge to date of the Two-Zone Model, Oscillation Theory, and map of the energy dissipation. Finally, in light of the book's conclusions, a variety of new approaches to the development of related technologies based on innovative principles is explored.