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Transient and steady-state analysis of heat, mass, and momentum transfer in developing and fully-developed regions of homogeneous tubular reactors with non-Newtonian fluid flow

Abbaszadeh Molaei, E ; Sharif University of Technology | 2013

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2012.07.026
  3. Publisher: 2013
  4. Abstract:
  5. In this article, the problem of simultaneous heat, mass, and momentum transfer in the developing region of tubular reactors with homogeneous chemical reaction and laminar power-law fluid flow under unsteady-state conditions has been solved. In this regard, the general governing equations were solved using finite-difference method and analyzed carefully. Moreover, the influences of various parameters and dimensionless numbers such as power-law index, heat of reaction, reaction order, and Damköhler number value on the numerical results were investigated. In addition, the numerical results obtained for the fully-developed velocity distribution of Newtonian fluid flow and Sherwood number value were validated against the well-known fully-developed velocity distribution and reported Sherwood number value in the literature and good agreement was obtained
  6. Keywords:
  7. Tubular reactor ; Developing regions ; Power law fluid ; Transport phenomena ; Tubular reactors ; Unsteady state ; Flow of fluids ; Numerical analysis ; Momentum transfer
  8. Source: Energy Conversion and Management ; Volume 65 , 2013 , Pages 308-321 ; 01968904 (ISSN)
  9. URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196890412003123