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MODELING CHAR OXIDATION AS A FUNCTION OF PRESSURE ...

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= tanh(M T )<br />

M T<br />

= 1<br />

M T<br />

MT = L O ′ ′ r<br />

2<br />

⎛ 1<br />

⎝ tanh(3MT ) ⎜<br />

( )<br />

in C s<br />

in Cartesian coordinates (2.26)<br />

1 ⎞<br />

− ⎟ in spherical coordinates (2.27)<br />

3MT ⎠<br />

C s<br />

[ ∫ De ( C)<br />

O r in′ ′ ( C)dC<br />

0<br />

]<br />

17<br />

− 1<br />

2<br />

(2.28)<br />

where L is the characteristic length of the particle (Aris, 1957), which is equal to V p/S g, C<br />

is the local concentration of oxidizer in the particle, r in ′ is the intrinsic molar reaction rate<br />

in any form, o is the stoichiometric coefficient of oxygen for each mole of carbon<br />

consumed, which converts the carbon consumption rate into oxygen consumption rate,<br />

and D e is the effective diffusivity, which can be a function of oxygen concentration, but is<br />

assumed to be spatially uniform (but still allowed to vary temporally) in this study for<br />

simplicity. In particular, the general modulus for the m-th order rate equation (Eq. 2.23)<br />

becomes (Bischoff, 1965):<br />

M T = L<br />

(m + 1)<br />

2<br />

okmC m −1<br />

s<br />

De (2.29)<br />

This general modulus has been widely used in the chemical engineering literature<br />

(Laurendeau, 1978; Hill, 1977; Bischoff, 1965; Aris, 1975; Carberry, 1976; Fogler, 1992;<br />

Froment and Bischoff, 1979; Levenspiel, 1993; Levenspiel, 1999; Mehta and Aris, 1971).<br />

For the Langmuir rate equation, a general modulus was obtained in this study by<br />

substituting Eq. 2.17 into Eq. 2.28:<br />

M T = L<br />

o k 1<br />

KC s<br />

2De 1 + KCs 1<br />

−<br />

2 [KCs − ln(1 + KCs )] . (2.30)

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