9.5 Heat Conduction with a Chemical Heat Source Fig. This problem is intended to model a chemical reaction in a fixed-bed flow reactor.
L is packed with catalytic pellets.
We want to find how the temperature varies in the reactor. We make the assumption that the reactor is well insulated so temperature does not vary radially. We also assume plug flow. The fluid enters with a velocity, v1, and temperature, T1. The graph above is for the values of N between -2 and 2.