Total segregation

The concept of a well-stirred segregated reactor which also has an exponential residence time distribution function was introduced by Dankwerts (16, 17) and was elaborated upon by Zweitering (18). In a totally segregated, stirred tank reactor, the feed stream is envisioned to enter the reactor in the form of macro-molecular capsules which do not exchange their contents with other capsules in the feed stream or in the reactor volume. The capsules act as batch reactors with reaction times equal to their residence time in the reactor. The reactor product is thus found by calculating the weighted sum of a series of batch reactor products with reaction times from zero to infinity. The weighting factor is determined by the residence time distribution function of the constant flow stirred tank reactor. 

Figure 7. Theoretical polymer distributions, based on kinetic description of Tan-lak (14) for micro-mixed and totally segregated CFSTRS with polymer feed (CFSTRS CMO = 0.5M FT = O.OIM 6 = 20.0 min XM = 0.70)...

The effects of micro-mixing on the molecular weight distribution are much more pronounced than those of segregation. According to Patterson (33) only a small increase in micro-mixing over that of total segregation will yield a pol)nner distribution very similar to that of micro-mixed reactor. 

As explained above, Xg = 0 for perfect micromixing. In a totally segregated medium, and if the consumption time of B is very large, Xg tends to be equal to 1. 

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Oils. SANS has been used to establish the effect of the addition of a hydrophobic guest (dodecane) on the behavior of liquid crystalline phases, in particular the lamellar and columnar phases of mixtures of the non-ionic surfactant C16E7 with D2O, as well as to determine the distribution of the hydrophobic guest in the microstructure. SANS showed that the presence of the hydrophobic guest molecule, in some cases, stabilized a particular phase structure, (for example lamellar phases formed at lower temperatures in the presence of dodecane) while in other cases it destabilized it, eventually (depending upon the concentration of dodecane added) causing the phase to disappear. In the lamellar phase, dodecane was found to be totally segregated in the center of the bilayer. 

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The state of mixing in the reactor—uniform distribution ( lumped parameters ) or uneven distribution ( distributed parameters ). Associated with this is the question of whether the reactor is maximally mixed or totally segregated, that is, whether the reactor is to be considered an ideal stirred vessel or an ideal tube reactor. 

Process engineering characteristics of reactors deal with the mixing conditions of the main reaction phase, the L phase. The degree of segregation (Danckwerts, 1958) can be used as an example. The two extreme conditions are referred to as maximal mixing, mm, and total segregation, ts (see Fig. 3.1). 

Some insight into possible types of fluid flow of the reaction phase was given in Fig. 3.10. Both the liquid and gas phases can exhibit all intermediate stages and combinations of the extremes of maximum mixing and total segregation. Close observation of the situation in a reactor to be simulated provides the first hint as to which model to use. 

The simplest concept of a reactor is that each independent element of fluid volume behaves as a DCSTR. This is the case of micromixing with total segregation, J = 1 (cf. Fig. 3.1b). The fluid stream leaving the reactor is then an average of all the individual DCSTR elements, each of which is present for a different length of time in the entire system. In mathematical form, the output stream concentration is given by Equ. 6.92 (Danckwerts, 1958) ... 

Figure 6.36. Plot of the dimensionless concentration of cell mass x and substrate s for a continuous culture as a function of the dimensionless mean residence time I as in Fig. 6.1b with Xq > 0 Calculated comparison between a CSTR with maximum mixing (ST m) or one with total segregation (ST J and a continuous plug flow reactor (PF), assuming Monod kinetics with a death rate (Tsai et al., 1969).

A possible answer to these issues could be the preventive separation of the different plastics prior to processing. Actually, since recycling has attracted the interest of industry, the separation processes are becoming more numerous and efficient achieving almost total segregation of the different plastic fractions. However, despite the improvement of the effectiveness of the pretreatment steps, there is still the possibility to find other polymers as contaminants in a main stream, and even at those low amounts, they can disturb the regularity of the recycling operation. 

Chiba et al. (1979) also proposed two equations to estimate the (C/mf)M for a completely mixed bed and the (C/mf)s for a totally segregated mixture. By utilizing the Ergun equation and the constant voidage assumption, they proposed to estimate the (C/mf)M for a completely mixed binary system as... 

Models predict that block copolymers are not totally segregated, but that there is an interphase in which both components interpenetrate, which increases the conformational entropy of the two parts. In highly dissimilar polymers, this will be very limited in extent, tending towards the strong segregation limit, whereas if they are quite similar, in a 50 50 system the composition profile may be almost sinusoidal, towards the weak segregation limit. 

Figure 5.6 TEM picture of the BPDA-PEC2000-ODA 2/1 membrane showing that at this temperature PEC is totally segregated.

In Eq. (1), So is the standard deviation of sample concentrations before mixing, which generally corresponds to totally segregated state. Therefore, in segregated state M = 0, and in perfectly mixed state M = 1. It has to be noticed that this is not an absolute exact method to characterize the degree of homogeneity in a mixture, because, in case of finite size particles, the standard deviation s and, therefore, the value of M depends on the number of particles in a sample [8]. 

Any mixture at an intermediate state between the totally segregated and completely random states must be deemed an incomplete mixture irrespective of its initial state it can be generated by mixing initially separated components or by spontaneous segregation of a completely random mixture. The actual state between these two extremes is characterized by the degree of mixedness measured by various mixing indices. 

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