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Segregation effects on consecutive competing reaction in a CSTR
Author(s) -
Truong Khac Trong,
Methot J.Claude
Publication year - 1976
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.5450540616
Subject(s) - continuous stirred tank reactor , dimensionless quantity , chemistry , thermodynamics , saponification , ethylene glycol , steady state (chemistry) , materials science , chromatography , organic chemistry , physics
Abstract The steady state behaviour of a continuous stirred tank reactor at a constant temperature of 30°C was studied using the saponification of ethylene glycol diacetate by sodium hydroxyde. The reactor studied was respectively fed by premixed and unmixed reactants. Experimental values of the level of segregation lay within the range of 0.15 to 0.5. The level of segregation has been correlated with the physicochemical dimensionless group k 1 C A 0/β and we may conclude that the reactor would be in a state of maximum mixedness when the magnitude of this group is smaller than 10 −4 .