What is a Chemical Reactor? - 1 views
started by kbojezhang44 on 08 Apr 20
started by kbojezhang44 on 08 Apr 20
started by kbojezhang44 on 08 Apr 20
started by kbojezhang44 on 08 Apr 20
In chemical engineering, chemical reactors are vessels (liquid containers) designed to contain chemical reactions.
The chemical reactions take place inside a vessel we refer to as a reaction vessel.
Usually it is jacketed, meaning there is a sort of glass container around the main vessel in which oil, water or some other liquid is pumped through to allow cooling of the reaction vessel.
To mix everything properly, we have a motor driven agitator suspended in the mix of chemicals. It looks like a propeller.
The vessel has a lid with many opening to attach different measuring instruments, or tubes for feedstock.
This is a flat flange lid with five necks.
Parts on the reaction vessel
Hose coupling. The thing you screw or tighten to connect the hose to the vessel. You can refer to the hose connection as well.
Vessel clamp. Ring around the vessel you use to attach it to the rest of the setup.
Necks. The parts sticking up from the lid where you can connected tubes.
Vessel support collar. Holds up the vessel.
Quick release clamp. Clamp you can quickly open without using a screw driver, screwing etc. E.g. think about modern bike seats and old ones which you had to adjust with a hex or screwdriver.
Manifold
Simply a tube or pipe with many openings, or a tube that splits into many tubes as the one below.
You will see this referred to in hydroponics systems. Like this one to send nutrient rich water to multiple rows of plants or individual plants.
The air intake on an internal combustion engine distributes air to each cylinder through a manifold.
We also have manifolds as a mathematical concept.
In very simplistic terms it means we have folded some Euclidean space so we can move in one direction and eventually get back to the starting point. E.g. the earth surface might seem like a flat Euclidean space but if you keep moving in one direction you get back to your starting point, since earth is a sphere.
Computer game worlds which wrap around when you exit the borders are also manifolds, but torus shaped.