3. Mixing control

3.1 Mixing processes in reactors

An imaginative way of describing mixing mechanisms and their impact on chemical reactions is to represent the reaction medium by two boundary states, which can be used to frame all situations .

• The macrofluid state (or total segregation) in which the fluid molecules remain grouped in globules, or aggregates, whose dimensions are small on the scale of the reactor (a few millimeters to a few centimeters maximum), and which contain a very large number of molecules.

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