Segregation, fluid dynamics

As briefly discussed in Section 1.2, chemical-reaction engineers recognized early on the need to predict the influence of reactant segregation on the yield of complex reactions. Indeed, the competitive-consecutive and parallel reaction systems analyzed in the previous section have been studied experimentally by numerous research groups (Baldyga and Bourne 1999). However, unlike the mechanical-engineering community, who mainly focused on the fluid-dynamics approach to combustion problems, chemical-reaction... 

Most of the membrane segregated enzyme systems previously examined suffer some constitutive drawbacks which limit their yield and area of application. When enzymes are entrapped within the sponge of asymmetric membranes, product and substrate mass transfer occur mainly by a diffusive mechanism reactor performance is then controlled only by means of the amount and kind of charged enzyme, and the fluid dynamics of the solution in the core of the fibers. UF or RO fluxes, moreover, result in enzyme losses. Enzyme crosslinking in the membrane pores can reduce these losses, but it can lead to an initial activity loss, as compared to that of the native enzyme. Of course, once the enzyme is deactivated, it makes the reactor useless for further operation. Such immobilization techniques are seldom useful for microbial cells due to their large size. 

Mass transfer rates in gas-flowing solids-fixed bed contactors are expected to be high, according to fluid dynamics and heat transfer behavior. Somewhat lower values of mass transfer coefficients than those expected were reported in the literature [6,35-37]. The reasons for that are the effects of segregation as well as strong influence of axial backmixing. Apart from this, mass transfer rates depend on size and structure (porosity) of flowing solids [36]. 

Gas-liquid phase segregation is typically required following some other separation process, such as distillation, absorption, evaporation, gas-liquid reactions, and condensation. Before separation techniques or equipment can be selected, the parameters of the separation must be defined. Information on volume of gas or liquid, volume ratio of the phases, and disper -phase particle size—that is, drop or bubble size-should be known or estimated. For existing operations, measurements are a possibility, while for new facilities analogies from data on other processes could be used. Laboratory or pilot riant tests may be considered, but it is difficult to maintain all fluid dynamic properties constant while chaining scale and wall effects may be significant on the small scale. 

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In this example eqs. (13-27) to (13-30) (the paired-interaction closure) were incorporated into a subroutine called by Fluent to compute the rates of segregation growth and decay and the rates of the chemical reactions. The subroutine, called Pairin, is available from author Patterson. Pairin may easily be adapted to other fluid dynamics simulators if desired. Pairin may also be used as an example for development of new subroutines using more or less sophisticated closures. In addition, the subroutine developed by Baldyga and co-workers (see Sections 13-5.2 and 13-5.8) for use of the P-PDF may be used instead of the Pairin subroutine. 

To be able to predict sulfur release patterns a non-steady sulfur release model has been developed (4) which is based upon diffusion controlled devolitalization, second order volatiles combustion and shrinking particle char combustion further coal particle and bed heat up and fluid dynamic behaviour like segregation, slugging and bed expansion are taken into account. The model contains no fit parameters most of the variables are based on literature correlations the gas transfer parameters like Sherwood number and bubble-dense phase transfer coefficient have been obtained from coal burnout experiments. In Fig. 4 a result of such a calculation is shown together with the results of a quadruple experiment. The agreement between the calculated and the measured curves is good. 

Despite their complexity, the dynamics in these systems is fast with the molecules flipping and changing their positions. In fact these are ordered fluids composed of distinct compartments. There are no fixed positions of the molecules but distinct spaces with a maximum time averaged probability for each of the segregated units to be located and these dynamic compartments are arranged periodically in space. The structures are in thermodynamic equilibrium as indicated... 

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