Reactor

The mass balance equation for a reactor with n input flows and o output flows is shown below:

The component mass balance equation for the components that do not participate in the chemical reaction for every component i is shown below:

A set of independent reactions r with c reactants and products per reaction r is expected to have the following number (N) of independent restrictions:

Assume that any chemical reaction can be written as follows:

Where:

αi \= the stoichiometric coefficient of any Ci component of a reaction.

Then, for the Case when each component participates only in one reaction, the stoichiometric equations have the following mathematical form:

Where:

ε = the extent of reaction

MWi \= the molecular weight of component i

A list of N restrictions is generated per reactor. The algorithm of this analysis rule automatically generates the stoichiometric equations to solve the problem.

Additionally, it is possible to constrain the solution using the normalization constraints used for nodes, manifolds, and tanks. However, this is a good to option only if the sum of the fractions is close to 1.0. The form of the constraint for c components is shown below.