On continuum steady states in the recycle system: reactor–separating unit

摘要

A reactor-separator recycle system is studied. The unreacted feed and intermediaternreactants leaving the reactor are separated from the end products of the reaction and arernrecycled. A generalized condition that can be used to judge the existence of a family ofrnsteady states for the operational mode which complete utilization of feed andrnintermediate reactants is proposed. A plug-flow reactor in which the second-orderrnreaction A+B-2C proceed with complete utilization of the feed reactants A and B isrnshown to be characterized by a family of steady states in which the concentrations ofrnreactants in the reactor can take an infinite of steady-state values lying within a boundedrnregion (interval).