Tracer Response Curves for Nonideal Reactors

We discussed three nonideal reactors in Section 10.1.2. Let s try to figure out the qualitative behavior of the tracer response curves for these reactors. 

The reactor shown in Rgure 10-3 is perhaps the easiest of the three nonideal reactors to understand. This is because the flow is very well characterized, i.e., the velocity is known as a function of the radius. The velocity is maximum at r = 0, the center of the reactor. If the fluid is Newtonian, the velocity at r = 0 is twice the average velocity, the velocity at the wall is zero, and the velocity profile is parabolic. 

The tracer response curve for a laminar flow reactor will resemble the one shown below. 

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