Mass transfer accompanied by first order intermediate reaction rate in two phase co-current flow with axial dispersion

1982 ◽  
Vol 37 (12) ◽  
pp. 1817-1819 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Nagy ◽  
T. Blickle ◽  
A. Ujhidy ◽  
K. Horváth
2015 ◽  
Vol 782 ◽  
pp. 260-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Preyas N. Shah ◽  
Eric S. G. Shaqfeh

Surfaces that include heterogeneous mass transfer at the microscale are ubiquitous in nature and engineering. Many such media are modelled via an effective surface reaction rate or mass transfer coefficient employing the conventional ansatz of kinetically limited transport at the microscale. However, this assumption is not always valid, particularly when there is strong flow. We are interested in modelling reactive and/or porous surfaces that occur in systems where the effective Damköhler number at the microscale can be $O(1)$ and the local Péclet number may be large. In order to expand the range of the effective mass transfer surface coefficient, we study transport from a uniform bath of species in an unbounded shear flow over a flat surface. This surface has a heterogeneous distribution of first-order surface-reactive circular patches (or pores). To understand the physics at the length scale of the patch size, we first analyse the flux to a single reactive patch. We use both analytic and boundary element simulations for this purpose. The shear flow induces a 3-D concentration wake structure downstream of the patch. When two patches are aligned in the shear direction, the wakes interact to reduce the per patch flux compared with the single-patch case. Having determined the length scale of the interaction between two patches, we study the transport to a periodic and disordered distribution of patches again using analytic and boundary integral techniques. We obtain, up to non-dilute patch area fraction, an effective boundary condition for the transport to the patches that depends on the local mass transfer coefficient (or reaction rate) and shear rate. We demonstrate that this boundary condition replaces the details of the heterogeneous surfaces at a wall-normal effective slip distance also determined for non-dilute patch area fractions. The slip distance again depends on the shear rate, and weakly on the reaction rate, and scales with the patch size. These effective boundary conditions can be used directly in large-scale physics simulations as long as the local shear rate, reaction rate and patch area fraction are known.


1976 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Szeri ◽  
Y.T. Shah ◽  
A. Madgavkar

1996 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 564-573
Author(s):  
Jiří Hanika ◽  
Natasha Dropka ◽  
Milan Kubíček

The numerical solution of a system of partial differential equations describing the reacting component transfer in catalyst particles of non-traditional shapes, in extrudates of the starcat and starring types, facilitates the concept of concentration field in a catalyst and of the effectiveness factor of internal diffusion which determines the total reaction rate and thus the catalyst performance. The problem solution was carried out for the first-order reaction of infinite long extrudate and for the particles of star-shaped catalyst of finite length. The favourable effect was confirmed of the catalyst extrudate shaping on its performance as far as the rection takes place in the diffusion region.


2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lech W. Szajdak ◽  
Jerzy Lipiec ◽  
Anna Siczek ◽  
Artur Nosalewicz ◽  
Urszula Majewska

Abstract The aim of this study was to verify first-order kinetic reaction rate model performance in predicting of leaching of atrazine and inorganic compounds (K+1, Fe+3, Mg+2, Mn+2, NH4 +, NO3 - and PO4 -3) from tilled and orchard silty loam soils. This model provided an excellent fit to the experimental concentration changes of the compounds vs. time data during leaching. Calculated values of the first-order reaction rate constants for the changes of all chemicals were from 3.8 to 19.0 times higher in orchard than in tilled soil. Higher first-order reaction constants for orchard than tilled soil correspond with both higher total porosity and contribution of biological pores in the former. The first order reaction constants for the leaching of chemical compounds enables prediction of the actual compound concentration and the interactions between compound and soil as affected by management system. The study demonstrates the effectiveness of simultaneous chemical and physical analyses as a tool for the understanding of leaching in variously managed soils.


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