Turbulent Mixing and Chemical Reactions

Turbulent Mixing and Chemical Reactions Jerzy Ba???dyga, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland John R. Bourne, Visiting Professor, University of Birmingham, UK and Emeritus Professor, ETH Zurich, Switzerland The way in which reagents are mixed can greatly influence the yield and range of products formed by fast, multiple chemical reactions. Understanding this phenomenon enables chemists to carry out reactions more selectively, make better use of raw materials and simplify product workup and separation. Turbulent Mixing and Chemical Reactions presents a balanced treatment of the connection between mixing and reaction. It contains theoretical aspects, experimental methods and expected results as well as worked examples to illustrate problem solving. This book will be of interest to all scientists involved in chemical engineering, physical chemistry, and synthetic chemists in the fine chemical and pharmaceuticals industry.

Preface xvi Guide to Notation xx Chapter 1 Introduction—Mixing and Reaction 1 Chapter 2 Bulk Flow Patterns and the Selectivity of Slow Reactions 8 Chapter 3 Fast Reactions and the Limits of Classical Methods 38 Chapter 4 The Nature and Definition of Turbulence 49 Chapter 5 Theory of Turbulence and Models of Turbulent Flow 102 Chapter 6 Mixing of Non-reacting Materials: from Turbulent Diffusion to Mixing on Molecular Scale 294 Chapter 7 Analysis and Modelling of Mixing of Reactive Materials 427 Chapter 8 Mixing and Chemical Reaction in a Lagrangian Framework Mechanistic Models 532 Chapter 9 The Evaluation of Mixing Models General Considerations 637 Chapter 10 Mechanisms and Kinetics of some Test Reactions 642 Chapter 11 Model-Experiment Comparisons when Micromixing Controls 671 Chapter 12 Model-Experiment Comparisons when Micro- and Mesomixing Control 730 Chapter 13 Characteristics of Various Mixers 804 Chapter 14 Precipitation 810 Chapter 15 Further Applications 841 Index 865