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  2. Residence time - Wikipedia

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    The residence time of a fluid parcel is the total time that the parcel has spent inside a control volume (e.g.: a chemical reactor, a lake, a human body).The residence time of a set of parcels is quantified in terms of the frequency distribution of the residence time in the set, which is known as residence time distribution (RTD), or in terms of its average, known as mean residence time.

  3. Chemical reactor - Wikipedia

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    A chemical reactor is an enclosed volume in which a chemical reaction takes place. In chemical engineering, it is generally understood to be a process vessel used to carry out a chemical reaction, which is one of the classic unit operations in chemical process analysis.

  4. Continuous stirred-tank reactor - Wikipedia

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    The continuous stirred-tank reactor ( CSTR ), also known as vat- or backmix reactor, mixed flow reactor ( MFR ), or a continuous-flow stirred-tank reactor ( CFSTR ), is a common model for a chemical reactor in chemical engineering and environmental engineering. A CSTR often refers to a model used to estimate the key unit operation variables ...

  5. Reaction–diffusion system - Wikipedia

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    Reaction–diffusion system. A simulation of two virtual chemicals reacting and diffusing on a Torus using the Gray–Scott model. Reaction–diffusion systems are mathematical models that correspond to several physical phenomena. The most common is the change in space and time of the concentration of one or more chemical substances: local ...

  6. Spacetime - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In physics, spacetime is a mathematical model that fuses the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional continuum. Spacetime diagrams are useful in visualizing and understanding relativistic effects such as how different observers perceive where and when events occur.

  7. Plug flow reactor model - Wikipedia

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    The plug flow reactor model ( PFR, sometimes called continuous tubular reactor, CTR, or piston flow reactors) is a model used to describe chemical reactions in continuous, flowing systems of cylindrical geometry. The PFR model is used to predict the behavior of chemical reactors of such design, so that key reactor variables, such as the ...

  8. Chemical kinetics - Wikipedia

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    The kinetic isotope effect is the difference in the rate of a chemical reaction when an atom in one of the reactants is replaced by one of its isotopes. Chemical kinetics provides information on residence time and heat transfer in a chemical reactor in chemical engineering and the molar mass distribution in polymer chemistry.

  9. Space manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Space manufacturing or In-space manufacturing (ISM in short) is the fabrication, assembly or integration of tangible goods beyond Earth's atmosphere (or more generally, outside a planetary atmosphere), involving the transformation of raw or recycled materials into components, products, or infrastructure in space, where the manufacturing process ...