Steady-State Model Solution

We want to compute the steady-state temperature and composition profiles for the styrene tubular reactor. The final model equations are 

At any axial position z, the value of the fluid temperature T is a constant and not a function of radial position. This is because equations (6.14.32) and (6.14.34) only have axial derivatives and no radial derivatives appear. This means that w e can solve for the catalyst temperature from equation (6.14.33) since it is only a function of the radial position. 

Equation (6.14.33) can be solved analytically for the catalyst temperature at any axial position as a function of radial position. The differential equation is 

This is a Modified Bessel Equation (Wylie, 1960) which is a special linear second-order differential equation with nonconstant coefficients. The solution is given as 

We can now integrate the gas phase energy balance (6.14.32) over the radial cross-sectional area for flow, 

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Under steady-state conditions, variations with respect to time are eliminated and the steady-state model can now be formulated in terms of the one remaining independent variable, length or distance. In many cases, the model equations now result as simultaneous first-order differential equations, for which solution is straightforward. Simulation examples of this type are the steady-state tubular reactor models TUBE and TUBED, TUBTANK, ANHYD, BENZHYD and NITRO. 

The mathematical solution to moving boundary problem involves setting up a pseudo-steady-state model. The pseudo-steady-state assumption is valid as long as the boundary moves ponderously slowly compared with the time required to reach steady state. Thus, we are assuming that the boundary between the salt solution and the solid salt moves slowly in the tablet compared to the diffusion... 

Divisek et al. presented a similar two-phase, two-dimensional model of DMFC. Two-phase flow and capillary effects in backing layers were considered using a quantitatively different but qualitatively similar function of capillary pressure vs liquid saturation. In practice, this capillary pressure function must be experimentally obtained for realistic DMFC backing materials in a methanol solution. Note that methanol in the anode solution significantly alters the interfacial tension characteristics. In addition, Divisek et al. developed detailed, multistep reaction models for both ORR and methanol oxidation as well as used the Stefan—Maxwell formulation for gas diffusion. Murgia et al. described a one-dimensional, two-phase, multicomponent steady-state model based on phenomenological transport equations for the catalyst layer, diffusion layer, and polymer membrane for a liquid-feed DMFC. 

Both steady-state models for type IV FCC units require only the solution of a set of equations. The solution of our 21 and the 23 equations models formed by the equations (7.25) to (7.45) or (7.25) to (7.47), respectively, can be checked against the industrial data in order to compare the accuracy and to validate the model. 

Typically, a non-linear system dynamic model is made up of individual lumped models of the components which at a minimum conserve mass and energy across the given component, but may also have a momentum equation if pressure drops must also be analyzed. For most dynamic problems of interest in hybrid studies, however, the momentum equation may be taken as quasi-steady (unless the solver requires the dynamic form to perform the numerical solution). Higher fidelity individual models or reduced order models (ROMs) can also be used, where the connection to the system model would be made at each subcomponent boundary. Since dynamic systems modeling is not as common as steady-state modeling, some discussion of modeling approaches will be given. There are two primary methods used to provide solutions for the pressure-flow dynamics of a system model. 

For steady-state conditions this equation is set equal to 0, because at a given depth x, concentration does not change with time. Steady-state models are generally more amenable to mathematical solution than are non-steady-state models. Unfortunately, diagenesis in many shoal-water carbonate sediments is significantly influenced or even dominated by non-steady-state processes. 

Some chemical process systems may have a single steady state (single solution to a process model) under some design or operation conditions and multiple solutions under other design conditions. There are automatic techniques to vary a parameter of a system model to determine when these solutions branch from a single solution to multiple solutions. The FORTRAN code AUTO is perhaps the most widely used code for this. 

Equation (2.14) is referred to as a quasi-steady-state model, because x2, whose rate of change dx2 jdt = (l/e)g can be large when e is small, may rapidly converge to a solution (2.12), which is the quasi-steady-state form of Equation (2.8). 

One reason for the apparent reluctance to utilize the steady-state model may be the numerical problems that must be circumvented in order to obtain a solution to the system equations. These numerical difficulties are discussed for the first time in this report. Also, the present formulation differs from the original... 

The reader is asked to confirm that all degrees of freedom are fulfilled and the model can be solved. The steady-state model has a closed-form solution. Here we only present the Da - zAi2 dependence in Eq. (4.32) and Figure 4.6(b) ... 

A nonlinear steady-state model is obtained by setting the derivatives equal to zero in Eqs. (4.13) and (4.14). This gives a set of nonlinear algebraic equations that normally have to be solved numerically. However, in this particular case we can find an explicit solution for CA in terms of temperature. 

The interpretation of pore-water concentration versus depth profiles of O2 and NO in oxic sediments is based on a one-dimensional, steady-state model in which the production or consumption of a solute in a sedimentary layer is balanced by transport into or out of the layer by solute diffusion and burial advection. In mathematical form. 

Analyses of monolith reactors specific for SCR applications are limited in the scientific literature Buzanowski and Yang [43] have presented a simple one-dimensional analytical solution that yields NO conversion as an explicit function of the space velocity unfortunately, this applies only to first-order kinetics in NO and zero-order in NH3, which is not appropriate for industrial SCR operation. Beeckman and Hegedus [36] have published a comprehensive reactor model that includes Eley-Rideal kinetics and fully accounts for both intra- and interphase mass transfer phenomena. Model predictions reported compare successfully with experimental data A single-channel, semianalytical, one-dimensional treatment has also been proposed by Tronconi et al [40] The related equations are summarized here as an example of steady-state modeling of SCR monolith reactors. 

Fumer, G., Westall, J. C., and Sollins, P. (1990) The Study of Soil Chemistry Through Quasi-steady State Models II. Soil Solution Acidity, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 54(9), 2363-2374. 

Multistage separation columns will operate at unsteady-state conditions during startup or shutdown, or when any of the operating variables change. While the condition of steady-state operation is a basic model assumption for most of the solution methods, it is an assumption that represents an operation that in reality may apply only to limited periods of time, in which steady-state conditions actually prevail. As column conditions change with time, a new steady-state solution will be required. Whereas steady-state models can simulate the column performance at a point in time, dynamic models can simulate the column performance on a continuous time basis. 

Several wind models of analytical nature exist. They differ in their level of physical sophistication and in their way to parametrize the wind characteristics. In all cases, the wind is assumed to be spherically symmetric, which appears to be a reasonable first approximation even in two-dimensional simulations, at least late enough after core bounce. In addition, the wind is generally treated as a stationary flow, meaning no explicit time dependence of any physical quantity at a given radial position. Newtonian and post-Newtonian descriptions of a spherically symmetric stationary neutrino-driven (supersonic) wind or (subsonic) breeze emerging from the surface of a PNS have been developed. The reader is referred to [24] for the presentation of a Newtonian, adiabatic and steady-state model for the wind and breeze regimes, and for a general-relativistic steady-state wind solution. 

In water and sediments, the time to chemical steady-states is controlled by the magnitude of transport mechanisms (diffusion, advection), transport distances, and reaction rates of chemical species. When advection (water flow, rate of sedimentation) is weak, diffusion controls the solute dispersal and, hence, the time to steady-state. Models of transient and stationary states include transport of conservative chemical species in two- and three-layer lakes, transport of salt between brine layers in the Dead Sea, oxygen and radium-226 in the oceanic water column, and reacting and conservative species in sediment. 

Equation (90) can be modelled by a 4-level system, involving 2G9/2 (f), 4F9/2, 4I9/2 (/) and 4I 5/2 [380], similar to Eqs. (88)a,b, except that level/is fed by branching from 4F9/2, instead of being pumped directly from the ground state. Whereas the solution Eq. (89) refers to the steady state, the solution for the decay of 2G9/2 luminescence following pulsed excitation is rather more complex. Although the experimental decay curve can be well-modelled, the upconversion rate constant U is not well-determined [380]. 

These observations can be interpreted again in terms of the filament model of Sect. 2.7.1. The interesting point is that there exists a stable steady state filament solution with the excited state in the center, even though in the homogeneous system the excited state is not steady. This can be explained qualitatively by the different timescales corresponding to the dynamics of the two reaction com-... 

Divisions of Analysis. The preceding model describes conditions within a single fetal capillary surrounded by a thin tissue cylinder and supplied by a cylindrical annulus of maternal blood, as shown in Figure 3. Since the numerical techniques required for the solution of such equations were not well defined, the determination of a steady-state concurrent solution was first obtained. Based upon the results of this work, an unsteady-state concurrent solution was assumed possible and feasible. 

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