Mixing is a fundamental issue in process engineering and many industrial fields. It is closely related to a large number of different applications, such as chemical reactions, thermal transfer, liquid-liquid extraction, crystallization, and the like. In fact, mixing whether at the reactor scale, sustained by the flow structures, or at molecular scales, influences the selectivity and hence the productivity of reactions. Understanding and quantification of the micromixing mechanism is critical in industrial chemical processes, especially for fast exothermal reactions. Micromixing can be characterized by chemical probe methods based on observation of a local chemical reaction that results from a competition between turbulent mixing at microscales and the reaction kinetics. A system of parallel competing reactions producing iodine was developed by Fournier et al. [1] to study partial segregation in stirred tanks. The coupling of the borate neutralization and the Dushman reaction in this system allows the measurement of micromixing efficiency in reactors by monitoring the amount of iodine produced. Called the iodide-iodate method, this technique has been extensively used in different types of reactors. A novel adaptive procedure recently developed by the authors to improve the reliability of the iodide-iodate method is used here. The heat exchanger-reactor presented here is an innovative geometry based on the addition in parallel of tubes equipped with helical inserts. It is expected to qualify as a low-cost compact heat-exchanger reactor and static mixer of high performance.
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ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting collocated with the ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conference and the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels
July 8–12, 2012
Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Fluids Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-4475-5
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Assessment of Mixing by Chemical Probe in Swirl Flow HEX Reactors
Akram Ghanem,
Akram Ghanem
Nantes University, Nantes, France
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Thierry Lemenand,
Thierry Lemenand
Nantes University, Nantes, France
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Dominique Della Valle,
Dominique Della Valle
ONIRIS, Nantes, France
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Hassan Peerhossaini
Hassan Peerhossaini
Nantes University, Nantes, France
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Akram Ghanem
Nantes University, Nantes, France
Thierry Lemenand
Nantes University, Nantes, France
Dominique Della Valle
ONIRIS, Nantes, France
Hassan Peerhossaini
Nantes University, Nantes, France
Paper No:
FEDSM2012-72035, pp. 1141-1148; 8 pages
Published Online:
July 24, 2013
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Ghanem, A, Lemenand, T, Della Valle, D, & Peerhossaini, H. "Assessment of Mixing by Chemical Probe in Swirl Flow HEX Reactors." Proceedings of the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting collocated with the ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conference and the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels. Volume 1: Symposia, Parts A and B. Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, USA. July 8–12, 2012. pp. 1141-1148. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/FEDSM2012-72035
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