Well-Mixed Discontinuous Isothermal Batch Reactor

1 Well-Mixed (Discontinuous) Isothermal Batch Reactor 

The ideally stirred tank reactor is perfectly uniform with regard to concentration and temperature. The general mass balance for such an ideally mixed reactor (either operated batchwise or in continuous mode) reads as  

Determination of the reaction time t required for a desired conversion is an important goal. In the following, we briefly recapitulate the respective equations already derived in Section 4.3.1. 

For a first-order reaction with regard to reactant A and a rate constant k, Eq. (4.10.3) leads to  

The term kt is called the Damkoehler number Da (of a first-order reaction). 

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