GEOMETRY OF THE ATTAINABLE REGION GENERATED BY REACTION AND MIXING - WITH AND WITHOUT CONSTRAINTS

Given a system of reactions with known reaction kinetics and a known feed, it is of interest to find all the possible outlet conditions (the attainable region) for an arbitrary system of steady-flow reactors with any total volume. A geometric approach was used to derive a set of necessary conditions as well as a limited, but powerful, sufficiency condition for the attainable region. These results extend those previously obtained for isothermal, constant-density systems in concentration space to include adiabatic and variable-density systems in composition-volume space. It is also shown how the method can be used to find the attainable region for systems with constraints. © 1990, American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.