A vast majority of material processing in industry involves homogeneous phase reactions. These reactions are carried out in batch mode as well as continuous mode. The empty tubular reactors are widely used reactor systems for continuous processing in chemical and allied industry. The heat effects due to these reactions necessitate the use of some heat removal/addition system with these reactors...

a comparison was made between the experimental non-isothermal a vs. t curves and those calculated on the basis of a previous isothermal study. It was observed that for low heating rates, when the "thermal lag" is negligible, the dynamic measurements are in good agreement with the isothermal ones. Furthermore, for process (I), two mathematical methods proposed for the interpretation of the non-i...

The environmental benefits of low emission lean burn technology in reducing NOx emissions up to 80% will only be effective when these are deployed to a large range of new aero-engine applications. While integrating methodologies for advanced engine architectures and thermodynamic cycles. It will support European engine manufacturers to pick up and keep pace with the US competitors, being alread...

We investigate the effects of compressibility andwall cooling on the stationary, viscous (Type II) instability mode within the 3D boundary layer over rotating cones with half-angle greater than 40◦. The stationary mode is characterised by zero shear stress at the wall and a triple-deck solution is presented in the isothermal case. Asymptotic solutions are obtained which describe the structure o...

BACKGROUND Significant variation in the inherent degree of acetylation naturally exists in the xylem cell walls of Populus trichocarpa. During pretreatment, endogenous acetate hydrolyzes to acetic acid that can subsequently catalyze the breakdown of poplar wood, increasing the efficiency of biomass pretreatment. RESULTS Poplar genotypes varying in cell wall composition were pretreated in 0.3%...

This paper investigates the natural convection heat transfer performance in a complex-wavy-wall cavity filled with power-law fluid. In performing the simulations, the continuity, Cauchy momentum and energy equations are solved subject to the Boussinesq approximation using a finite volume method. The simulations focus specifically on the effects of the flow behavior index in the power-law model ...

The numerical simulation of turbulent indoor-air flows is performed using iterative substructuring methods. We present a framework for coupling eddyviscosity turbulence models based on the non-stationary, incompressible, nonisothermal Navier-Stokes problem with non-isothermal near-wall models; this approach covers the k/ǫ model with an improved wall function concept. The iterative process requi...