A study of ̄ow visualization and residence time distribution is provided in order to model the ̄ow between two electrodes in a commercial ®lter-press reactor, the ElectroSynCell from Electrocell AB. Flow visualization indicates that both axial and lateral dispersion phenomena occur and a global plug ̄ow behaviour is observed. The ̄ow distribution is asymmetric due to the design of the inlet system ...

The attainable-region approach for reaction, mixing, and separation is applied for step-growth melt polycondensations. A concentration-based formulation is applied to develop hybrid reactorseparator models for the two-phase continuous stirred tank reactor and plug-flow reactor with simultaneous vapor removal. The evaporation of the volatile byproducts, which is typically limited by liquid-phase...

This contribution addresses the development of a Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) for a set of time-varying hyperbolic PDEs coupled with a set of time-varying ODEs through the boundary. The approach is based on an infinitedimensional Hilbert state-space realization of the system and operator Riccati equation (ORE). In order to solve the optimal control problem, the ORE is converted to a set of ...

The article is focused on the aspects of using micro-catalytic pulse reactors for studying gas-phase reactions. A literature review includes data regarding different types of micro-catalytic pulse reactor applications in heterogeneous catalysis and the techniques used for estimating kinetic parameters are summarized. The experimental part describes the adaptation of a pyrolysis chromatograph to...

This paper deals with the existence and stability of multiple equilibrium profiles in tubular bioreactors. We prove here that a tubular biological reactor can posses one or several equilibrium profiles according to the dispersion and convection terms as long as the kinetic function belongs to a general class of non-monotonic functions. Such systems allow the characterization of the hydrodynamic...