INVESTIGADORES
ALFANO Orlando Mario
capítulos de libros
Título:
Photocatalytic Reactor Design
Autor/es:
MARUGAN, J.; VAN GRIEKEN, R.; CASSANO, A.E.; ALFANO, O.M.
Libro:
Photocatalysis: Fundamentals and Perspectives, RSC Energy and Environment Series No. 14
Editorial:
The Royal Society of Chemistry
Referencias:
Año: 2016; p. 367 - 387
Resumen:
Thesimulation and full predictive design of large-scale photocatalytic reactors canbe carried out by solving the conservation equations of momentum, energy andmass on the system, similarly to conventional chemical reactors. The momentumand mass balance equations take the same expressions as those corresponding tothermal reactors, as they depend on the fluid dynamic behavior of the reactor(well-mixed, plug-flow, axial dispersion, etc.), the relevant mass transfermechanism (diffusion and/or convection) and the expression corresponding to thereaction rate taking into consideration the stoichiometry of the chemicalreactions. In contrast, the classic enthalpy balance that describes the heatflows and temperature profiles in thermal chemical reactors is substituted inphotochemical reactors by the radiative energy balance.