Residence Time Distribution of Single Continuous Stirred-Tank Reactors Subject to a Square Pulse Input

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Consider a single CSTR (continuous stirred-tank reactor) with a residence time equal to three hours. A square pulse input of width is defined by
, if
and
if
, where
is the Dirac delta function and
is the unit step function. This Demonstration plots both the CSTR's residence time distribution (RTD) curve and the square pulse input for user-set values of the width parameter
. If
, one recovers the usual RTD for an impulse input.
Contributed by: Housam Binous and Ahmed Bellagi (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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S. M. Walas, Chemical Reaction Engineering Handbook of Solved Problems, New York: Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1995 p. 517.
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