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Jump Condition At The Boundary Between A Porous Catalyst And A Homogeneous Fluid, Francisco J. Valdes-Parada, J. Alberto Ochoa-Tapia Jan 2005

Jump Condition At The Boundary Between A Porous Catalyst And A Homogeneous Fluid, Francisco J. Valdes-Parada, J. Alberto Ochoa-Tapia

Francisco J. Valdes-Parada

The method of volume averaging (Whitaker, 1999) is used to derive the jump conditions between a porous catalyst and a homogeneous fluid. To simplify the analysis a first order kinetics is used and the convective transport is neglected. The statement for the derivation is in terms of the spatially smoothed equations obtained by Wood et al. (2000). We have followed a similar procedure to the one used by those authors to derive, besides a jump boundary condition that couples the two media transport, a closure problem to predict the effective reaction rate coefficient at the interregion dividing surface as a …


Avoid Sulfuric Acid Corrosion In Metallic Stacks, João F. Gomes Jan 2005

Avoid Sulfuric Acid Corrosion In Metallic Stacks, João F. Gomes

João F Gomes

Acidic gaseous effluents frequently cause corrosion on metallic stacks. This paper presents a method for prevision of probability of corrosion occurrence caused by gaseous effluents containing sulphur oxides which is based on the sulphur trioxide and moisture content measured in stack


Emissions Of Dioxin And Dibenzofuran From Electric Arc Furnaces, João F. Gomes Jan 2005

Emissions Of Dioxin And Dibenzofuran From Electric Arc Furnaces, João F. Gomes

João F Gomes

This paper describes work done in order to clarify the formation mechanism of highly toxic micropollutants, such as dioxins and dibenzofurans, from electric arc furnaces used in the production of carbon steel from scrap. The study is allowing to derive relationships between the levels of airborne micropollutants and the operational parameters of the production process so that an abatement of pollution could be achieved. By using the European standard method CEN 1948 for dioxin like compounds sampling and measurement, it was possible to determine the characteristic fingerprint of micropollutants emitted by this particular stationary source.


Darcy's Law For Immiscible Two-Phase Flow: A Theoretical Development, Francisco J. Valdes-Parada, Gilberto Espinoza-Paredes Jan 2005

Darcy's Law For Immiscible Two-Phase Flow: A Theoretical Development, Francisco J. Valdes-Parada, Gilberto Espinoza-Paredes

Francisco J. Valdes-Parada

The aim of this paper is to show how the method of volume averaging can be used to obtain a closed set of averaged equations for bubbling flow. The Navier–Stokes equations are considered as the starting point for the volume-averaging method. The closure was formulated as an associated problem with the deviations around averaged values of the local variables. When the traditional length-scale restrictions are imposed, the volume-averaged momentum equation can be given by &#;vk k – &#;vm m = Kk⋅ (–∇ &#;pk k + ρkgk), which is equivalent to Darcy’s law. The tensor Kk is determined by closure problems …


Analysis Of Welding Fumes: A Short Notice On The Comaprison Between Two Sampling Techniques, João F. Gomes Dec 2004

Analysis Of Welding Fumes: A Short Notice On The Comaprison Between Two Sampling Techniques, João F. Gomes

João F Gomes

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