Ideal reactors index

From a mathematical point of view the SBR is the most complex of the four ideal reactors because of its unsteady operation over the whole reaction period and its changing reactor volume due to the dosage. Therefore it is more convenient to use mole numbers for the description instead of concentrations. In addition it has to be observed that the actual number of moles of the fed component present in the reactor cannot be calculated directly by the stoichiometric coupling introduced but by an extended version only which accounts for conversion and time. The added reactant and the initially charged reactant will be indexed A and B, respectively, in the following text. If the conversion is known the number of moles of B present at any time can be calculated according to ... 

Visual Encyclopedia of Equipment. This section was developed by Dr. Susan Montgomery at the University of Michigan. Here, a wealth of photographs and descriptions of real and ideal reactors are given. Students with visual, active, sensing, and intuitive learning styles of the Felder/Solomon Index will particularly benefit from this section. 

Both theoretical and experimental studies have been performed on palladium-based membrane reactors for the water-gas shift reaction. Ma and Lund simulated the performance achievable in a high temperature water-gas shift membrane reactor using both ideal membranes and catalysts [18]. By comparing the results obtained with those related to the existing palladium membrane reactors, they concluded that better membrane materials are not needed, and that higher performances mainly depend on the development of a water-gas shift catalyst not inhibited by CO2. Marigliano et al. pointed out how the equilibrium shift conversion in membrane reactors is an increasing function of the sweep factor (defined as the ratio between the flow rate of the sweep at the permeate side and the flow rate of CO at the reaction side) [19]. The ratio is an index of the extractive capacity of the system. 

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