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Main Authors: Feres, Renato, Pasewark, Eric, Yablonsky, Gregory
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18239
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author Feres, Renato
Pasewark, Eric
Yablonsky, Gregory
author_facet Feres, Renato
Pasewark, Eric
Yablonsky, Gregory
contents We consider reaction-transport processes in open reactors in which systems of first order reactions involving a number of gas species and solid catalysts can occur at localized active regions. Reaction products flow out of the reactor into vacuum conditions and are collected at an exit boundary. The output composition problem (OCP) is to determine the composition (molar fractions) of the collected gas after the reactor is fully emptied. We provide a solution to this problem in the form of a boundary-value problem for a system of time-independent partial differential equations. We then consider network-like reactors, which can be approximated by a network consisting of a collection of nodes and 1-dimensional branches, with reactions taking place at nodes. For these, it is possible to solve the OCP in a simple and effective way, giving explicit formulas for the output composition as a function of the reaction coefficients and parameters associated with the geometric configuration of the system. Several examples are given to illustrate the method.
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spellingShingle Determination of output composition in reaction-advection-diffusion systems on network reactors
Feres, Renato
Pasewark, Eric
Yablonsky, Gregory
Chemical Physics
We consider reaction-transport processes in open reactors in which systems of first order reactions involving a number of gas species and solid catalysts can occur at localized active regions. Reaction products flow out of the reactor into vacuum conditions and are collected at an exit boundary. The output composition problem (OCP) is to determine the composition (molar fractions) of the collected gas after the reactor is fully emptied. We provide a solution to this problem in the form of a boundary-value problem for a system of time-independent partial differential equations. We then consider network-like reactors, which can be approximated by a network consisting of a collection of nodes and 1-dimensional branches, with reactions taking place at nodes. For these, it is possible to solve the OCP in a simple and effective way, giving explicit formulas for the output composition as a function of the reaction coefficients and parameters associated with the geometric configuration of the system. Several examples are given to illustrate the method.
title Determination of output composition in reaction-advection-diffusion systems on network reactors
topic Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18239