FIELD: machine engineering.
SUBSTANCE: loading device includes at least one rigid auxiliary pipe (7) divided into a plurality of sections facing each other at the beginning of loading, an inner pipe (5) mounted inside an outer pipe (6), a central loading hopper (1) loading particles onto the vibrating or belt conveyor feeding the auxiliary pipe (7) through a funnel (3). Solid catalyst particles are introduced through the pipe (7) located inside space (4). Loading is carried out by free fall, crossed by the counter current gas flow introduced through the inner pipe (5) to slow down the fall of particles. When being filled, the pipe (7) is raised by means of extraction of sections, keeping distance relative to the layer surface.
EFFECT: invention provides dense and uniform catalyst loading in each of the bayonet tubes of the exchange reactor.
3 cl, 1 dwg, 1 tbl
