Solid transport, liquid

Increasing the pressure of the gaseous reactant not only increases the amount present in the gas phase but also increases gas/liquid transport and the solubility of the gas in the liquid phase. This, in turn, facilitates liquid/solid transport of this species. All of these factors increase the availability of the gaseous reagent to the catalyst. Fig. 5.11 shows a typical plot for the relationship between hydrogen pressure and the reaction rate at a fixed catalyst quantity and agitation rate.28 At lower values an increase in pressure promotes an increase in rate but above a given value further increases in pressure have little or no effect on the rate. In the... 

Liquid-solid. Transport between the liquid and solid (catalyst) phases in trickle-bed reactors is at least a first cousin to transport in more conventional fixed beds, and our understanding of the liquid phase mass-transfer coefficient here benefits from the decades of research devoted to that topic. A good correlation was reported as far back as 1948 by Van Krevelen and Krekels [D.W. Van Krevelen and J.T.C. Krekels, Rec. Trav. Chim. Pays-Bas, 67, 512 (1948)], who proposed... 

The effect of physical processes on reactor performance is more complex than for two-phase systems because both gas-liquid and liquid-solid interphase transport effects may be coupled with the intrinsic rate. The most common types of three-phase reactors are the slurry and trickle-bed reactors. These have found wide applications in the petroleum industry. A slurry reactor is a multi-phase flow reactor in which the reactant gas is bubbled through a solution containing solid catalyst particles. The reactor may operate continuously as a steady flow system with respect to both gas and liquid phases. Alternatively, a fixed charge of liquid is initially added to the stirred vessel, and the gas is continuously added such that the reactor is batch with respect to the liquid phase. This method is used in some hydrogenation reactions such as hydrogenation of oils in a slurry of nickel catalyst particles. Figure 4-15 shows a slurry-type reactor used for polymerization of ethylene in a sluiTy of solid catalyst particles in a solvent of cyclohexane. 

The chemical engineer is concerned with the industrial application of processes. This involves the chemical and microbiological conversion of material with the transport of mass, heat and momentum. These processes are scale-dependent (i.e., they may behave differently in small and large-scale systems) and include heterogeneous chemical reactions and most unit operations. Tlie heterogeneous chemical reactions (liquid-liquid, liquid-gas, liquid-solid, gas-solid, solid-solid) generate or consume a considerable amount of heat. However, the course of... 

For a nonvolatile liquid, where transport through the gas phase is negligible, one could substitute the first term in the equation, -ysv, with -yso, which corresponds to the interface energy between the dry solid and vacuum. If 5 > 0, the liquid will wet the surface if 5 < 0, a finite contact angle will exist, determined by Eq. (1). 

Bavarian and Fan [3, 4] reported a similar phenomenon occurring in a three-phase fluidized bed. In their case, the hydraulic transport of a packed bed occurred at the start-up of a gas-liquid-solid fluidized bed. Although the cause was different from the case reported in the present study, similar phenomena were observed in both cases. 

Fate and exposure analyses. The multimedia transport and transformation model is a dynamic model that can be used to assess time-varying concentrations of contaminants that are placed in soil layers at a time-zero concentration or contaminants released continuously to air, soil, or water. This model is used for determining the distribution of a chemical in the environmental compartments. An overview of the partitioning among the liquid, solid and/or gas phases of individual compartments is presented in Fig. 7. The exposure model encompasses... 

Poison, Class B A D.O.T. term for liquid, solid, paste, or semisolid substances other than Class A poison of irritating materials that are known or presumed on the basis of animal tests to be so toxic to man as to afford a hazard to health during transportation. 

The HTE characteristics that apply for gas-phase reactions (i.e., measurement under nondiffusion-limited conditions, equal distribution of gas flows and temperature, avoidance of crosscontamination, etc.) also apply for catalytic reactions in the liquid-phase. In addition, in liquid phase reactions mass-transport phenomena of the reactants are a vital point, especially if one of the reactants is a gas. It is worth spending some time to reflect on the topic of mass transfer related to liquid-gas-phase reactions. As we discussed before, for gas-phase catalysis, a crucial point is the measurement of catalysts under conditions where mass transport is not limiting the reaction and yields true microkinetic data. As an additional factor for mass transport in liquid-gas-phase reactions, the rate of reaction gas saturation of the liquid can also determine the kinetics of the reaction [81], In order to avoid mass-transport limitations with regard to gas/liquid mass transport, the transfer rate of the gas into the liquid (saturation of the liquid with gas) must be higher than the consumption of the reactant gas by the reaction. Otherwise, it is not possible to obtain true kinetic data of the catalytic reaction, which allow a comparison of the different catalyst candidates on a microkinetic basis, as only the gas uptake of the liquid will govern the result of the experiment (see Figure 11.32a). In three-phase reactions (gas-liquid-solid), the transport of the reactants to the surface of the solid (and the transport from the resulting products from this surface) will also... 

The rate of chemical attack will depend on the concentration according to the order of the reaction (i.e. in a zero-order reaction the rate is independent of concentration, in a first-order reaction the rate depends linearly on concentration, and in second-order reaction the rate depends on the square of concentration). Increasing the concentration, therefore, provides a means of acceleration. Remember, however, that chemical attack on plastics is a liquid-solid and not a liquid-liquid reaction, such that the reaction laws only hold if there is free movement of all chemical species with no limitations due to diffusion or transport and no barrier layers. Since this is rarely the case, temperature is preferred as a means of acceleration. 

Chemical reactions on solid surfaces can be realized in gas-solid and liquid-solid systems. In both cases the reaction takes place on the surface of the solid matrix, and therefore the molecules to be reacted need to get in contact with the reactive surface. Several transport regimes and interaction mechanisms define the mass transfer efficiency. They can be summarized as follows [6] ... 

As can be concluded from this short description of the factors influencing the overall reaction rate in liquid-solid or gas-solid reactions, the structure of the stationary phase is of significant importance. In order to minimize the transport limitations, different types of supports were developed, which will be discussed in the next section. In addition, the amount of enzyme (operative ligand on the surface of solid phase) as well as its activity determine the reaction rate of an enzyme-catalyzed process. Thus, in the following sections we shall briefly describe different types of chromatographic supports, suited to provide both the high surface area required for high enzyme capacity and the lowest possible internal and external mass transfer resistances. 

Scott, K., Kraemer, S., and Sundmacher, K. Gas and liquid mass transport in solid polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Institution of Chemical Engineers Symposium Series 1999 11-20. 

X. G. Yang, R Y. Zhang, A. L. Lubawy, and C. Y. Wang. Visualization of liquid water transport in a PEFC. Elechtrochemical and Solid State Letters 7 (2004) A408-A411. 

A. Bazylak, J. Heinrich, N. Djilali, and D. Sinton. Liquid water transport between graphite paper and a solid surface. Journal of Power Sources 185 (2008) 1147-1153. 

The physical nature of the process stream. Is it single-phase or two-phase Is it liquid, solid, vapor or slurry What is its temperature and pressure at the sampling point, and how far can these be allowed to change during sampling What is its viscosity at the appropriate sample measurement temperature The chemical nature of the process stream. Is it at equilibrium (a final product) or is it to be measured mid-reaction Is sample transport possible, or must the sample be measured in situ Is it corrosive, and what material and metallurgical constraints exist ... 

Reversible and irreversible retention of contaminants on the subsurface solid phase is a major process in determining pollutant concentrations and controlling their redistribution from the land surface to groundwater. After being retained in the solid, contaminants may be released into the subsurface liquid phase, displaced as water-immiscible liquids, or transported into the subsurface gaseous phase or from the near surface into the atmosphere. The form and the rate of release are governed by the properties of both contaminant and solid phase, as well as by the subsurface environmental conditions. We consider here contaminants adsorbed on the solid phase. 

Anaerobic Filter. An anaerobic filter consists of packed support media that traps biomass as well as facilitates attached growth of biomass as a biofilm (Fig. 8). Such a reactor configuration helps in the retention of suspended biomass as well as gas-liquid-solid separation. The flow of liquid can be upward or downward, and treatment occurs due to attached and suspended biomass. Treated effluent is collected at the bottom or top of the reactor for discharge and recycling. Gas produced in the media is collected underneath the bioreactor cover and transported for storage or use. Volumetric loading rates vary from 5 to 20 kg COD/m day with HRT values of 0.5-4 days. 

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