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The design of a perfectly mixed high-temperature gas phase flow reactor

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posted on 2018-08-22, 14:01 authored by Michael S. Short
Reactor designs to collect data for determining the nature and rates of chemical reactions (particularly those in the gas phase at elevated temperatures) are reviewed. The limitations and weaknesses of the equipment presently employed are discussed and inadequate mixing in a so called 'ideally stirred' reactor is illustrated using a technique in which smoke is generated by chemical reaction within the vessel itself. The selection of a 'perfectly mixed' flow reactor from a wide range of alternative schemes is then reported (use being made where appropriate, of computer programs written for the purpose). This basic design concept is developed on prototypes and finally, the design, fabrication and testing of a stirred gas phase quartz reactor and its oven, suitable for operation up to approximately 500°C are described in detail. In addition, with only slight modification to the reactor body, it is suggested that the equipment would be suitable for the study of heterogeneously catalysed reactions.

Funding

Science Research Council.

History

School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Chemical Engineering

Publisher

© Michael Stanley Short

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

1978

Notes

A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.

Language

  • en

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