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Conversions and temperature rises in a tubular flow reactor with uncontrolled wall heat transfer
Author(s) -
Golding JA.,
Vena F.,
Gorowski D.
Publication year - 1981
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.5450590609
Subject(s) - laminar flow , heat transfer , adiabatic process , thermodynamics , reynolds number , acetic anhydride , mechanics , materials science , flow (mathematics) , inlet , chemistry , turbulence , physics , mechanical engineering , organic chemistry , engineering , catalysis
Abstract A study has been made of the acetic anhydride‐water reaction in a flow reactor where there was heat loss from the reactor wall. Runs were carried out at varying inlet acetic anhydride concentrations and Reynolds numbers. The laminar flow model with heat loss at the wall was found to give good agreement with experimentally observed conversions and overall temperature rises. In addition, predicted radial profiles for this model gave a better representation of measured temperature profiles than had been obtained when assuming reaction conditions were adiabatic.