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Qualitative and quantitative observations on the tubular reactor
Author(s) -
Amundson Neal R.,
Luss Dan
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
the canadian journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1939-019X
pISSN - 0008-4034
DOI - 10.1002/cjce.5450460608
Subject(s) - bounding overwatch , steady state (chemistry) , constant (computer programming) , chemical reactor , mechanics , qualitative analysis , finite difference , mathematics , thermodynamics , materials science , mathematical analysis , nuclear engineering , physics , chemistry , computer science , engineering , qualitative research , social science , artificial intelligence , sociology , programming language
The tubular reactor in the steady state is considered for a single chemical reaction. It is shown that almost all of the qualitative features of the temperature and concentration profiles may be deduced from the equations themselves without solving them. Extensive numerical calculations are also presented both for the finite and semi‐infinite reactor. Comparisons are made with the lumped constant system. It is shown that the solution for the semi‐infinite reactor is always unique and serves as a bounding solution for all finite reactors with the same parameters.