Structured catalytic reactors optimization using entropic criteria based on experimentally derived transport coefficients and flow resistances (N N209 119137)
Duration: 2009 - 2012
Description
Novel performance efficiency criteria will be developed to estimate structured catalytic reactors. The criteria would point out the solutions that secure the lowest entropy generation due to irreversible phenomena like flow resistance, heat transport, diffusion, chemical reaction. Similar criteria have already been derived for the compact heat exchangers. The existing experimental database of heat, mass and momentum transfer characteristics for the mesh and short-channel structured reactor fillings will be enhanced to validate the criteria. The experiments will be performed for the short-channel structures and they will cover heat and mass transport as well as the flow resistance. Optimization of the channel length-to-diameter ratio seems the crutial problem.
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