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plug flow

[′pləg ‚flō]

(fluid mechanics)

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In addition, the solutions offered can handle both loop and plug flow reactor models.

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He defended increase in property valuation rates, saying the purpose was to regulate the real estate market, plug flow of money into speculative investment and divert it towards the industry.

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And, with plug flow reactors, the overall heat generation will change significantly over the length of the reactor vessel.

Continuous Flow Calorimetry: Achieving the Impossible: Answering FDA's call on pharma to switch from batch to continuous flow processes

* Guaranteed robustness: high resistance to vibration, temperature shocks, plug flow water hammer and condensation-induced water hammer.

Endress' Prowirl enables precise measurements

In Figure 17(a), the time lag between the two signals for slug flow is 0.009 s, so the bubble velocity in the plug flow was 0.333 m/s according to (7).

Local Void Fractions and Bubble Velocity in Vertical Air-Water Two-Phase Flows Measured by Needle-Contact Capacitance Probe

Early gas turbine combustors were modeled by [30] in the 1950s as an arrangement of a perfectly stirred reactor (PSR) for the high-intensity primary zone of the combustor, followed by a plug flow reactor (PFR) for the burnout zone of the combustor.

Model-Based Approach for Combustion Monitoring Using Real-Time Chemical Reactor Network

However, near and inside the 90[degrees] connectors and the union segments, the velocity field presents low- and high-velocity zones due to the inherent CPC geometry, showing that the CPC cannot be considered as an ideal plug flow reactor.

Simulations of a Single-Phase Flow in a Compound Parabolic Concentrator Reactor

In studies with biological reactors applied in the treatment of effluents, the perfect mixing and the plug flow models are mentioned as ideal models.

Effect of hydraulic retention time on hydrodynamic behavior of anaerobic-aerobic fixed bed reactor treating cattle slaughterhouse effluent/Efeito do tempo de retencao hidraulica no comportamento hidrodinamico de um reator anaerobio-aerobio tratando efluente de abatedouro bovino

A numerical and experimental study of the mixing of pulsed propane into a main reactor flow has been performed; an approach has been postulated to obtain near ideal plug flow pulses which are well mixed laterally and well-separated axially.

Rapidly Pulsed Reductants in Diesel NOx Reduction by Lean NOx Traps: Effects of Mixing Uniformity and Reductant Type

The dispersion model is based on the ideal plug flow and accounts for the deviations from the ideal flow that is caused by backmixing or random fluctuations.

Radiotracer technology in mixing processes for industrial applications

where [[tau].sub.0], [[tau].sub.rz], [alpha], k , [u.sub.B], Q, [[mu].sub.0], [u.sub.av], [v.sub.z], p and [R.sub.p] are the yield stress, Shear stress, slip parameter, permeability, slip velocity, Darcy velocity, coefficient of viscosity at the interface r = 0, average velocity, velocity component in z-direction, pressure and radius of the plug flow region.

Analytical study of Bingham fluid flow through a conical tube/Analitine binghamo skyscio srauto tekejimo kuginiu vamzdziu studija

The cyclic vacuum plug flow conveying arrangement avoids product separation or segregation, and systems are certified as explosion proof by ATEX, requiring no additional equipment.