TFR = Tubular Flow Reactor

In another land of ideal flow reactor, all portions of the feed stream have the same residence time that is, there is no mixing in the axial direction but complete mixing radially. It is called a.plugflow reactor (PFR), or a tubular flow reactor (TFR), because this flow pattern is characteristic of tubes and pipes. As the reaction proceeds, the concentration falls off with distance. 

Fixed-bed reactors Trickle-flow reactor (TFR) This is a tubular flow reactor with a concurrent down-flow of gas and liquid over a fixed-bed of catalyst (Figure 3.10). Liquid trickles down whereas the gas phase is continuous. This reactor is mainly used in catalytic applications. Typical application examples of this reactor type are the following HDS of heavy oil fractions and catalytic hydrogenation of aqueous nitrate solutions. 

The ideal behavior of tubular flow reactors (TFR) is plug flow, in which all nonreacting molecules have equal residence times. Any... 

Tubular flow reactors (TFR) deviate from the idealized PFR, since the applied pressure drop creates with viscous fluids a laminar shear flow field. As discussed in Section 7.1, shear flow leads to mixing. This is shown schematically in Fig. 11.9(a) and 11.9(b). In the former, we show laminar distributive mixing whereby a thin disk of a miscible reactive component is deformed and distributed (somewhat) over the volume whereas, in the latter we show laminar dispersive mixing whereby a thin disk of immiscible fluid, subsequent to being deformed and stretched, breaks up into droplets. In either case, diffusion mixing is superimposed on convective distributive mixing. Figure 11.9(c) shows schematically the... 

In order to calculate the concentration profile in an ideal tubular flow reactor (TFR) (vid. Fig. 3.6) with a cross sectional area of F = 7t the equation of conservation is established. In doing this it is assumed that there are no... 

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