Optimization of a Continuous Pulsed Corona Reactor
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چکیده
Pulsed corona discharge processes utilize chemical radicals and ions and highly reactive molecules produced from a high voltage pulsed electrical discharge that is sustained in an aqueous phase medium. Recently, such processes have been used for treating organic contaminants from wastewater. The principle objective of this work is to optimize the hydrogen peroxide needed in the flow reactor to degrade phenol to a prespecified level with respect to the chemistry induced by the pulsed streamer corona. A simplified model of the corona reactor is utilized in conjunction with dynamic optimization and scaling analysis is used to derive analytical expressions for calculating the optimal hydrogen peroxide concentration. Simulations are performed to verify the performance of this optimization strategy.
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