A note on the optimal volumetric flow rate during start up of a BSTR performing...

• Author(s): Malcata, F. X.
• Date: 1988
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/6683
• Origin: Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
• Subject(s): Analytical optimization; Asymptotic behaviour; BSTR; Computation of optimum constant volumetric flow rate; Transient conditions during start up
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Theoretical background for the calculation of the optimum constant volumetric flow rate for an isothermal BSTR performing a Michaelis-Menten reaction under transient behaviour arising from start up conditions is reported. The asymptotic kinetlic behaviours of zeroth and first order were used in order to derive derive analytical criteria, quite useful for the predesign steps in some situations where the filling up and the overall operating time are of the same order of magnitude.