Journal
CHINESE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 24, Issue 6, Pages 711-718Publisher
CHEMICAL INDUSTRY PRESS CO LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjche.2016.01.011
Keywords
Mixing; Intensification; Simulation; Sudden change in cross-section; Vortex
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21176136, 21422603]
- National Science and Technology Support Program of China [2011BAC06B01]
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In this work, we revised the expression of mixing intensity to describe the mixing output through a cross section in a flow system by considering heterogeneity of flow field, and carefully investigated the mixing process along a straight tube with expanding/contracting cross section by simulation method. The simulation results show that a sudden expansion of cross section has remarkable mixing intensification effect within a limited period (on the sub-second scale) or tube-length (on the millimeter scale), corresponding to the generation of considerable local vortices determined by both the flow capacity and the ratio of cross section change; a sudden contraction of cross section has instantaneous but weak mixing intensification effect; through introducing a local expansion structure with proper length, as the combination of sudden expansion and sudden contraction, their mixing intensification effects could be superposed. Besides, the rationality and importance are experimentally verified to explore the time profile of mixing intensity and carry out the vortex analysis by simulation for enhancing the selectivity of a complicated reaction system. These progresses may lead to more meaningful quantitative description of mixing process in a flow microreactor for some specific chemical processes. (C) 2016 The Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China, and Chemical Industry Press. All rights reserved.
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