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Partially Stirred Reactor #130

Open BangShiuh opened 2 years ago

BangShiuh commented 2 years ago

Abstract

In a lot of cases, a perfect stir reactor is not suitable to model the partial mix of gas. Partially stirred reactor (PaSR) is a practical solution to this with low computational cost.

Motivation

Describe the need for the proposed change:

Possible Solutions

One of the PaSR models consider the reactor been split into reacting zone and non-reacting zone with the ratio ฮบ,

ฮบ = ๐œ_c / (๐œ_c + ๐œ_mix) dY / dt = ฮบ (Y-Y0) / ๐œ_mix + ฯ‰/ฯ Y_out = ฮบ Y + (1-ฮบ ) Y0

Y0 is the inlet mass fraction. ๐œ_mix is the mixing time scale that can be estimated from turbulence theory such as the Kolmogorov model or experimental data and optimization methods. ๐œ_c is the chemical time scale that can be estimated from the reaction mechanism.

References

Finite-rate chemistry modeling of non-conventional combustion regimes using a Partially-Stirred Reactor closure: Combustion model formulation and implementation details (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.04.085)