Effect of channeling on the performance of adiabatic flow tank reactors for exothermic reactions

The performance of CSTR's can be affected significantly by the presence of channeling, for irreversible exothermic first and second order reactions, under adiabatic conditions. Theoretical curves exhibit the variation of the conversion with residence time, for different channeling intensities and various values of the kinetic parameters. A certain degree of channeling can be greatly beneficial to the reactor performance, especially when the activation energy and heat of reaction are high, where multiple steady states can exist. For second order reactions, the ratio of the initial concentrations of A and B, considered as a parameter, plays a role similar to that of the kinetic parameters.