1
Catalytic
reactions
1.4
Porous
Catalyst
1.7
External
Mass
Transfer
1.2
Catalytic
reactors
1.5
Transport
and
Reaction
1.3
Surface and
Enzyme
Reaction Rates
1.6
Mass
Transfer
Coefficient
1.8
Pore
Diffusion
1.8-1.10
Langmuir-Hinshelwood
Kinetic Mechanism
Gradients in the
reactor
TRANSPORT AND
REACTION
Transport
Steps
We
write
the
concentration within the
pellet as CA(x), indicating
that it is a function of
position x, which will be
different
for
different
geometries, as we will
consider later
JA
(C A1 C A2 )
Shl
k mAl
DA
k mA
Shl D A
ShL 0.66 Re L Sc
1
ShL 0.036 Re Sc
0.8
L
Schmidt SC number
DA the diffusivity of
For gases, SC =1
8
ShD
3
Flow is turbulent if ReD > 2100,
ShD
0.023 Re0D.8
Sc