Basics of non-ideal flow

Three main faetors affeet either the interaetion of fluids in a system or the flow pattern. These are  

How early or late mixing of material oeeurs in the system. 

The state of aggregation of the flowing material, its tendeney to elump, and for a group of moleeules to move about together. The residenee time distribution of material that is flowing through the system. 

Complete segregation (Molecules are kept grouped together in aggi egates). 

Maximum mixedness (Individual molecules are tree to move about and intermix). 

The RTD in a system is a measure of the degree to which fluid elements mix. In an ideal plug flow reactor, there is no mixing, while in a perfect mixer, the elements of different ages are uniformly mixed. A real process fluid is neither a macrofluid nor a microfluid, but tends toward one or the other of these extremes. Fluid mixing in a vessel, as reviewed in Chapter 7, is a complex process and can be analyzed on both macroscopic and microscopic scales. In a non-ideal system, there are irregularities that account for the fluid mixing of different 

In a mixing process where complete segregation occurs, the fraction of fluid elements with residence times (t, t + dt) is E(t)dt, and the average exit composition in the vessel is defined by  

So far we have treated two flow patterns, plug flow and mixed flow. These can give very different behavior (size of reactor, distribution of products). We like these flow patterns and in most cases we try to design equipment to approach one or the other because 

But real equipment always deviates from these ideals. How to account for this That is what this and the following chapters are about. 

Overall three somewhat interrelated factors make up the contacting or flow pattern  

the RTD or residence time distribution of material which is flowing through the vessel 

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Chapter 11 Basics of Non-Ideal Flow The Convolution Integral... 

For a basic understanding of chemical reactor design, start with Sections 4.10.1 and 4.10.2, where different ideal and isothermal reactor types are introduced and the respective performance equations are derived. You should then study the behavior of real reactors (non-ideal flow and residence time distribution, Section 4.10.4) and the simplest model to account for deviations of real systems from ideal reactors, the tanks-in-series model (Section 4.10.5). 

Flow calorimetric measurements of the isothermal Joule-Thomson coefficient of a vapour also provide information on gas non-ideality which is fiee from adsorption errors. Basically, all that is required is a fixed-throttle flow calorimeter, free of heat leaks, fitted with an electric heater as shown in Figure 9 so that isothermal measurements can be made [77-alb/wor]. 

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In Sections 8.4.1 and 8.4.2, we introduced the basic principles of photoconductivity. Without optical excitation, electric currents can flow in ideal, non-doped organic... 

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