On fine particles synthesis using three-zone reactor

Abstract

Abstract This paper reports a numerical study on thermal and mass dispersion in carbon combustion synthesis of oxides (CCSO) in porous media. A volume averaging of the microscopic conservation equations over an elementary volume is applied to derive the macroscopic conservation equations for convective and conductive heat and mass transfer in a porous media consisting of gas components mixture and solid particles of reactant species. The governing system of macroequations is the conservation of momentum, mass and energy for multicomponent gas-solid media using the heat and mass exchange between gas and solid phases. The model developed in dimensionless variables and similarity parameters is applied to numerical simulation of barium titanate micron particles synthesis in three-zone reactor using the thermal and mass dispersion. The results are in satisfactory agreement with experimental measurements. The dispersion strongly influences on the thermal front propagation as well as on the barium titanate synthesis rate. The three-zone reactor is more efficient compared to the flow-reactor.