Chemical Engineering & Technology, Vol.27, No.3, 225-231, 2004
CFD modelling of mixing effects on the course of parallel chemical reactions carried out in a stirred tank
Effects of turbulent mixing on the course of two fast parallel chemical reactions (neutralization of sodium hydroxide and hydrolysis of ethyl chloroacetate) carried out in a semibatch stirred tank reactor are experimentally investigated and numerically simulated. The flow pattern in the stirred tank is predicted using CFD and experimentally validated using Laser Doppler Anemometry. Mixing effects are modelled using three CFD based models. In the first and the second model the Beta probability distribution and the spiked distribution are used respectively; in the third model concentration fluctuations are neglected.