Competitive-Consecutive and Competitive-Parallel reactions are both mixing sensitive reactions; the yield of desired product from these reactions depends on how fast the reactants are brought together. Recent experimental results have suggested that the mixing effect may depend strongly on the stoichiometry of the reactions. To investigate this, a 1-D, non-dimensional, reaction-diffusion model at the micro-mixing scale has been developed. Assuming constant mass concentration and diffusivities, systems of PDEs have been derived on a mass fraction basis for both types of reactions. A single general Damkhler number and specific dimensionless reaction rate ratios were derived for both reaction schemes. The resulting dimensionless equations were simulated to investigate the effects of mixing, reaction rate ratio and stoichiometry of the reactions. It was found that decreasing the striation thickness and the dimensionless rate ratio maximizes yield for both types of reactions and that the stoichiometry has a considerable effect on yield. All three variables were found to interact strongly. Phase plots showing the interactions between the three variables were developed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:AEU.10048/1044 |
| Date | 06 1900 |
| Creators | Shah, Syed Imran A. |
| Contributors | Kresta, Suzanne (Chemical & Materials Engineering), Kostiuk, Larry (Mechanical Engineering), Dechaine, Greg (Chemical & Materials Engineering) |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 2701965 bytes, application/pdf |
| Relation | Shah, S. I. A., Kostiuk, L.W. and Kresta, S.M. (2009) http://proceedings.europeanmixing13.org/data/Shah_et_al.pdf |
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