Xun Liu, Li Chen*
, Wen-Quan Tao
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.14, pp. 1-9, 2020, DOI:10.5098/hmt.14.16
Abstract Fluid flow, mass transport and catalytic reaction in micro-reactors with catalyst are studied. Optimized structures of the catalyst generating the
maximum reaction rate are explored by numerically solving the reactive transport processes combined with topology optimization schemes in
COMSOL 5.3a. Effects of several physicochemical parameters including pressure drop, reaction rate constant, permeability of the porous catalyst and
radius of the reactor are investigated. Distributions of the optimized structures, velocity, pressure and concentration are discussed in detail. Results
show that the four physicochemical parameters have significant effects on the optimized structures of the catalyst obtained, indicating that generally
there does not… More >
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