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Process systems handling polymers and resins (e.g., butyl rubber or ethylene-propylene diene monomer rubbers) are often subject to plugging at dead-end locations such as PR valve inlets. In extreme cases, complete blockage of inlet piping and valve nozzle can result. This problem can be eliminated by the application of a flush-seated PR valve, in which dead-end areas are eliminated by placing the valve disc flush with the vessel wall, in the flow pattern of the contents. 

Identify the flow pattern of the prototype system by subjecting it to an impulse, step, or sinusoidal disturbance by injection of a tracer material as reviewed in Chapter 8. The result is classified as either complete mixing, plug flow, and an option between a dispersion, cascade, or combined model. 

Many materials of practical interest (such as polymer solutions and melts, foodstuffs, and biological fluids) exhibit viscoelastic characteristics they have some ability to store and recover shear energy and therefore show some of the properties of both a solid and a liquid. Thus a solid may be subject to creep and a fluid may exhibit elastic properties. Several phenomena ascribed to fluid elasticity including die swell, rod climbing (Weissenberg effect), the tubeless siphon, bouncing of a sphere, and the development of secondary flow patterns at low Reynolds numbers, have recently been illustrated in an excellent photographic study(18). Two common and easily observable examples of viscoelastic behaviour in a liquid are ... 

The regions over which the different types of flow can occur are conveniently shown on a Flow Pattern Map in which a function of the gas flowrate is plotted against a function of the liquid flowrate and boundary lines are drawn to delineate the various regions. It should be home in mind that the distinction between any two flow patterns is not clear-cut and that these divisions are only approximate as each flow regime tends to merge in with its neighbours in any case, the whole classification is based on highly subjective observations. Several workers have produced their own maps 4 8. ... 

Figure 3.61 Critical flow patterns in a short pipe. (From Zaloudek, 1963. Reprinted with permission of U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC, subject to the disclaimer of liability for inaccuracy and lack of usefulness printed in cited reference.)...

Basic Breakup Modes. Starting from Lenard s investigation of large free-falling drops in still air,12671 drop/droplet breakup has been a subject of extensive theoretical and experimental studies[268] 12851 for a century. Various experimental methods have been developed and used to study droplet breakup, including free fall in towers and stairwells, suspension in vertical wind tunnels keeping droplets stationary, and in shock tubes with supersonic velocities, etc. These theoretical and experimental studies revealed that droplet breakup under the action of aerodynamic forces may occur in various modes, depending on the flow pattern around the droplet, and the physical properties of the gas and liquid involved, i.e., density, viscosity, and interfacial tension. 

The first mode may occur when a droplet is subjected to aerodynamic pressures or viscous stresses in a parallel or rotating flow. A droplet may experience the second type of breakup when exposed to a plane hyperbolic or Couette flow. The third type of breakup may occur when a droplet is in irregular flow patterns. In addition, the actual breakup modes also depend on whether a droplet is subjected to steady acceleration, or suddenly exposed to a high-velocity gas stream.[2701[2751... 

When the gas flowrate is increased to a level at which the bubbles become very large and unstable, the bubbles tend to lose their identity and the flow pattern changes to a chaotic form without well-defined regions of high and low concentrations of particles. This is commonly described as the turbulent region which has, until fairly recently, been the subject of relatively few studies. 

In this chapter, we examine the various mechanisms that influence chemical redistribution in the subsurface and the means to quantify these mechanisms. The same basic principles can be applied to both saturated and partially saturated porous media in the latter case, the volumetric water content (and, if relevant, volatilization of NAPL constiments into the air phase) must be taken into account. Also, such treatments must assume that the partially saturated zone is subject to an equilibrium (steady-state) flow pattern otherwise, for example, under periods of heavy infiltration, the volumetric water content is both highly space and time dependent. When dealing with contaminant transport associated with unstable water infiltration processes, other quantification methods (e.g., using network... 

In any real reactor, the flow will not follow the plug-flow pattern precisely. Non-ideal flow in chemical reactors is the subject of Chap. 6 where the various models used to predict the performance of industrial reactors are discussed at some length. 

Flow pattern Next one decides whether a batch or continuous reactor is suitable and, if flow, whether a mixed of unmixed reactor is preferred. Initially one may do calculations for PFTR and CSTR to bracket all flow patterns. This is the subject of Chapters 3 and 4. The choice of catalyst and heat removal method will be very important in deciding the best flow pattern. 

In turbulent flow the eddies, which are superimposed on the over-all flow pattern, have dimensions large compared with a mean free path. Hence turbulent motion is macroscopic rather than molecular and the equations of change do apply to turbulent flow. This subject is discussed further in Sec. II,D,2. 

A measure that has been the subject of extensive publication is that of microreactors with catalytically coated walls (7,8). A microreactor has been defined as a miniaturized reaction vessel with characteristic dimensions in the range 10-300 pm which has been fabricated using state-of-the-art high-precision engineering (7). Such reactors exhibit well-defined laminar-flow patterns and permit facile scale-up by simple numbering up of the number of channels and flexible... 

Measuring the subjects inhalation patterns during a scintigraphic study can be important, especially considering that many DPIs are dependent on inspiratory flow for aerosol generation. This can be measured... 

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