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The diffusion layer widtli is very much dependent on tire degree of agitation of tire electrolyte. Thus, via tire parameter 5, tire hydrodynamics of tire solution can be considered. Experimentally, defined hydrodynamic conditions are achieved by a rotating cylinder, disc or ring-disc electrodes, for which analytical solutions for tire diffusion equation are available [37, 4T, 42 and 43]. 

Figure 2.3 Definition of variables for concentric cylinder viscometers (a) the rotating cylinder and (b) the coaxial cylinders.

Wagner and DUlont have described a low-shear viscometer in which the inside diameter of the outer, stationary cylinder is 30 mm and the outside diameter of the inner, rotating cylinder is 28 mm the rotor is driven by an electromagnet. The device operates at 135°C and was found to be free of wobble and turbulence for shear rates between 3 and 8 sec V The conversion of Eq. (2.7) to Eq. (2.9) shows that F/A = (i7)(dv/dr) (instrument constant) for these instruments Evaluate the instrument constant for this viscometer. 

The Bucher-Guyer horizontal rotary press is a highly automated batch process machine that requires no press aid. The press consists of a horizontal hydrauhc ram inside a rotating cylinder containing many flexible rods covered with a knitted synthetic fabric. The rods have serrated surfaces to allow juice which passes through the fabric to flow to the discharge ends. Hydrauhc pressure is apphed for a preset time, the ram is retracted, and the cylinder is rotated to break up the press cake. This cycle is repeated several times before the press cake is removed from the cylinder and the press is cleaned (16). Juice yield for this horizontal rotary press is 84% with secondary water addition it is increased to 92% (15). 

The first of these reactions takes place at temperatures of about 150°C, the second reaction proceeds at about 550—660°C. Typical furnaces used to carry out the reaction include cast-iron retorts the Mannheim mechanical furnace, which consists of an enclosed stationary circular muffle having a concave bottom pan and a domed cover and the Laury furnace, which employs a horizontal two-chambered rotating cylinder for the reaction vessel. The most recent design is the Cannon fluid-bed reactor in which the sulfuric acid vapor is injected with the combustion gases into a fluidized bed of salts. The Mannaheim furnace has also been used with potassium chloride as the feed. 

J. J. H. Brouwers, On the Motion of a Compressible Fluid in a Rotating Cylinder., Doctoral Dissertation, The Technische Hogeschool, Twente, the Nethedands, June, 1976. 

Tank Cells. A direct extension of laboratory beaker cells is represented in the use of plate electrodes immersed into a lined, rectangular tank, which may be fitted with a cover for gas collection or vapor control. The tank cell, which is usually undivided, is used in batch or semibatch operations. The tank cell has the attraction of being both simple to design and usually inexpensive. However, it is not the most suitable for large-scale operation or where forced convection is needed. Rotating cylinders or rotating disks have been used to overcome mass-transfer problems in tank cells. An example for electroorganic synthesis is available (46). 

J. Rotating cylinder in an infinite liquid, no forced flow... 

When fluid flows around a curwe in a duct, or when fluid is confined between differentially rotating cylinders, secondary flows called Taylor vortices are generated. If a membrane is mounted on a rotating... 

FIG. 28-17 Inner rotating cylinder used in laboratory apparatus of Fig. 28-16. 

Bulk polymerisation processes have been known for many years but until the mid-1960s the only commercial process was one operated by Pechiney-St Gobain in France. This process was a one-stage process and according to one patent example vinyl chloride was polymerised with 0.8%% of its own weight of benzoyl peroxide in a rotating cylinder containing steel balls for 17 hours at 58°C. 

For rotating cylinders the exponent x for Reynolds number is very often unity for turbulent flow, and therefore L may be included in the constant term for a particular geometry of cynlinder. 

The rotating disc and rotating cylinder have been successfully applied in the laboratory to study the effect of flow on corrosion rates and are much easier to use than actual pipelines and other real geometries. The results of these tests can now be correlated to geometries likely to be found in pipes, pumps, bends, etc. in plant by use of dimensionless group analysis. There-... 

Table 2.2 Correlation between rotating disc, rotating cylinder and smooth tubes...

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