The vortex-ingesting stirred tank reactor uses a combination of a helical screw impeller and concentric draft-tube to entrain and recycle headspace gas and disperse it as bubbles in a liquid reaction solvent. This study presents an experimental characterisation of a 0.29 m diameter vortex-ingesting gas-liquid stirred reactor, operated with solids mass fractions from 0 to 25%, over a range of sp...

For establishing hydrate-based technologies for natural-gas storage/transport, CO2 capture from industrial flue gases, etc., we need appropriate guidelines for the scale-up of hydrate production/processing equipment from laboratory scales to industrial scales. This paper aims to provide technical remarks on the scale-up of hydrate-forming reactors, the central components of hydrate production/p...

In this paper we present a bond graph model of a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor which represents the reaction kinetics as well as the heat and mass transport phenomena in the reactor. The consequences of reticulation of the phenomena and of the systematic use of the power conjugated variables on the formulation of the thermodynamic properties, the reaction kinetics and the energy and mass tran...

Different concentrations of oily waste were added in a discontinuous mode and recurrently to anaerobic continuous stirred tank reactors fed with cow manure and food waste. Four continuous stirred tank reactors were run in parallel. A control reactor (R1) received no additional oil and R2, R3 and R4 received increasing concentrations of oil in two different experimental approaches. First, the li...

This article describes the use of biofilm reactors for the production of various chemicals by fermentation and wastewater treatment. Biofilm formation is a natural process where microbial cells attach to the support (adsorbent) or form flocs/aggregates (also called granules) without use of chemicals and form thick layers of cells known as "biofilms." As a result of biofilm formation, cell densi...

The paper presents a method for H-infinity controller design for a system affected by parametric uncertainty. The proposed method is based on minimising infinity norm of sensitivity function of the nominal system. The design approach is verified by robust stabilization and control of an unstable and perturbed continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) with hydrolysis of Propylene Glycol. The contro...

A generalized Partially-Stirred Reactor (PaSR) model is presented in this work based on the inclusion of multiple chemical times. The PaSR has shown promising results at modelling turbulence-chemistry interaction Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) and Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS), providing an extension well-known Eddy Dissipation Concept (EDC). divides computational domain into reactive no...