Przemysl Chemiczny, Vol.97, No.12, 1998-2002, 2018
Study on mass transport and mixing characteristics in slug flow
The mass transport in the segmented flow generated in a T-type microreactor (internal diam. 3 mm) was monitored by changing the color of the bromothymol blue during neutralizing NaOH with AcOH. A heterogeneity in the distribution of concns. and a relationship between the length of segments and volumetric flow rate were obsd. The presence of dead zones with poor mixing was confirmed by using computational flow dynamics techniques. The relationship between the reaction rate and the energy dissipation was also shown.