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An axially dispersed, adiabatic tubular reactor obeys the following dimensionless mass and energy balance equations:

,

.

This is an example of a split-boundary value problem (BVP) with:

at ,

at ,

at ,

at .

Assume that the dimensionless heat of reaction is equal to and that the reaction rate is given by: .

is a dimensionless group analogous to the axial Péclet number () for the energy balance. In the present Demonstration, we take , for simplicity and in order to compare with data given in [1].

Reference

[1] M. E. Davis and R. J. Davis, Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Engineering, New York: McGraw–Hill, 2003.