Investigation of the intrinsic reaction kinetics and the mass transfer phenomena of nonanoic acid esterification with 2-ethylhexanol promoted by sulfuric acid or Amberlite IR120

2020 ◽  
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Author(s):  
Vincenzo Russo ◽  
Francesco Taddeo ◽  
Tommaso Cogliano ◽  
Rosa Vitiello ◽  
Roberto Esposito ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Le Xie ◽  
Qi-An Wang ◽  
Xian-Jin Luo ◽  
Zheng-Hong Luo

Abstract Solid particle dispersion and chemical reactions in high-viscosity non-Newtonian fluid are commonly encountered in polymerization systems. In this study, an interphase mass transfer model and a finite-rate/eddy-dissipation formulation were integrated into a computational fluid dynamics model to simulate the dispersion behavior of particles and the mass transfer–reaction kinetics in a condensation polymerization-stirred tank reactor. Turbulence fields were obtained using the standard k–ε model and employed to calculate the mixing rate. Cross model was used to characterize the rheological property of the non-Newton fluid. The proposed model was first validated by experimental data in terms of input power. Then, several key operating variables (i.e. agitation speed, viscosity, and particle size) were investigated to evaluate the dispersive mixing performance of the stirred vessel. Simulation showed that a high agitation speed and a low fluid viscosity favored particle dispersions. This study provided useful guidelines for industrial-scale high-viscosity polymerization reactors.


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2013 ◽  
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Author(s):  
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Jianfeng Pan ◽  
Aikun Tang ◽  
Qian Wang

2012 ◽  
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pp. 501-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teerawat Sema ◽  
Abdulaziz Naami ◽  
Kaiyun Fu ◽  
Mohamed Edali ◽  
Helei Liu ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
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Author(s):  
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Andrej Pohar ◽  
Blaž Likozar ◽  
Goran Dražić

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