Abstract
A simple, yet effective, undergraduate experiment has been developed in collaboration between the Chemical Engineering Department and the Optical Sciences and Engineering Program at NJIT. During step change tracer experiments, absorption of red laser light serves as the diagnostic to reveal complex flow patterns in short and long lengths of square cross section clear pipe. The transient absorbance curves constructed from the optical data reveal significant back-mixing in the short flow cell. The long flow cell shows behavior consistent with laminar flow with dispersion in a conduit. This analysis is performed without invoking the complications of the residence time distribution.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4329-4346 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings |
| State | Published - 2003 |
| Event | 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Staying in Tune with Engineering Education - Nashville, TN, United States Duration: Jun 22 2003 → Jun 25 2003 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Engineering