The invention relates to the technical field of reactors, in particular to a partition annular electric heat tracing radial
propane dehydrogenation reactor and a heating method thereof.The partition annular electric heat tracing radial
propane dehydrogenation reactor comprises a reactor shell, a reaction cavity is formed in the reactor shell, and a heat preservation layer is arranged in an interlayer in the reactor shell; the radial
bed layer structure is arranged in the reaction cavity and comprises an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder which are concentrically arranged, as well as a catalyst
bed layer and an electric heat tracing
system which are filled between the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder, and the electric heat tracing
system comprises a plurality of electric heat tracing assemblies and a power supply module; the
temperature control system comprises temperature sensors arranged in the annular heating areas in a distributed mode and a controller. Compared with the prior art, the electric heat tracing
assembly is directly buried in the catalyst
bed layer, energy is supplied to all the areas through the independent power supply
branch circuits, power is independently adjusted through the controller, partition differentiation heat compensation can be implemented according to the difference that heat dissipation of the outer ring is higher and heat absorption of the inner ring is higher, and the radial
temperature difference and local temperature fluctuation of the bed layer are remarkably reduced.