Consider a first-order reaction
in a real reactor where chemical reaction and dispersion are occurring. The Demonstration plots the ratio
of the volumes of the real and plug flow reactors as a function of
, where
is the reactor's conversion. You can change the value of the dispersion dimensionless group
, where
is the dispersion coefficient due to axial mixing,
is the reactor's length, and
is the fluid's velocity. With
near zero one recovers the plug flow behavior. As
, the behavior of a mixed flow reactor is observed.
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