Ys. Chien, The effect of non-ideal mixing on the number of steady-state multiplicity in the start-up diagram of two CSTRs in series, J CH INST C, 31(4), 2000, pp. 393-400
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Chemical Engineering
Journal title
JOURNAL OF THE CHINESE INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS
In this paper, we find a new mapped region of the output steady-state multi
plicity of the second CSTR in the start-up diagram of two non-ideal mixing
CSTRs in series where the reaction rate expression is - gamma(a) = kCa/(1 KCa)(2). By virtue of our analysis, this new mapped region is caused by th
e fact that the exact input multiplicity region in the non-ideal mixing of
the first CSTR overlaps with the exact output multiplicity region of the no
n-ideal mixing of the second CSTR. This new mapped region not only comes ab
out multiplicity in the second CSTR but also changes the maximum number of
steady states and its distribution in the start-up diagram. Simulated resul
ts are used to demonstrate our works.