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On the steady state activity levels in a reactor‐regenerator system
Author(s) -
Petersen E. E.
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.690060328
Subject(s) - regenerative heat exchanger , steady state (chemistry) , piston (optics) , exponential function , control theory (sociology) , mixing (physics) , residence time (fluid dynamics) , limiting , thermodynamics , flow (mathematics) , mechanics , continuous reactor , chemistry , residence time distribution , mathematics , nuclear engineering , mathematical analysis , engineering , physics , computer science , mechanical engineering , heat exchanger , artificial intelligence , optics , control (management) , quantum mechanics , geotechnical engineering , wavefront , biochemistry , catalysis
A method is proposed for computing the steady state activity levels at various points within a reactor‐regenerator system in which the residence time distribution functions in the reactor and regenerator, the permanent deactivation function, and the temporary deactivation and activation functions are arbitrarily specified. A particularly simple solution to these equations is obtained when the temporary activation and deactivation functions are of exponential form. The latter equations are used to calculate values of the mean activity in the reactor for the limiting cases of piston type of flow and complete mixing under a variety of conditions.