Ideal Gas Control Volume Mole Reactor#
An ideal gas control volume mole reactor, as implemented by the C++ class
IdealGasMoleReactor and available in Python as the IdealGasMoleReactor
class. It is defined by the state variables:
, the temperature (in K) , the reactor volume (in m3) , the number of moles for each species (in kmol)
Equations 1-3 are the governing equations for an ideal gas control volume mole reactor.
Volume Equation#
The reactor volume can change as a function of time due to the motion of one or more walls:
Where
Species Equations#
The moles of each species in the reactor changes as a result of flow through the
reactor’s inlets and outlets, and production of homogeneous gas phase
species and reactions on the reactor surfaces. The rate at which
species
Energy Equation#
In the case of the ideal gas control volume mole reactor model, the reactor temperature
and differentiate it with respect to time to obtain:
Substituting this into the energy equation for the control volume mole reactor (3) yields an equation for the temperature: