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Tracer Methods in Chemical Reactors. Techniques and Applications

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Chemical Reactor Design and Technology

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSE,volume 110))

Abstract

Tracer methods are encountered in many areas of science and engineering. The diversity of their uses is illustrated by measurement of blood flow and capillary permeability of the microcirculation in medicine and by flow visualization in channels and around airplane wings in mechanical and aerospace engineering. Other applications are flow and transport measurements in rivers in hydrology, transport measurements of pollutants in soils in civil engineering, and measurements of spreading of plumes in the atmosphere in environmental engineering. Additional uses involve identification of reaction mechanisms of chemical and catalytic reactions, measurement of diffusion rates, etc. All these methods rely on perturbing the system under investigation and monitoring the system’s response to such perturbations. This response is then interpreted. Some conclusions can be obtained on a model-free basis, others are model dependent.

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