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The document summarizes an experiment conducted to examine the effect of pulse input in a tubular flow reactor. Residence time distribution (RTD) functions were constructed for the reactor by controlling the flowrate and recording conductivity values over time for different inputs. Graphs of outlet conductivity and E(t) over time showed negative slopes for pulse input as expected. Values for the area under the E(t) graph, variance, skewness, and mean residence time were calculated from the experimental data.

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The document summarizes an experiment conducted to examine the effect of pulse input in a tubular flow reactor. Residence time distribution (RTD) functions were constructed for the reactor by controlling the flowrate and recording conductivity values over time for different inputs. Graphs of outlet conductivity and E(t) over time showed negative slopes for pulse input as expected. Values for the area under the E(t) graph, variance, skewness, and mean residence time were calculated from the experimental data.

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From the experiment that we have conducted, the effect of pulse input in a tubular flow reactor
can be examined. Moreover, we were able to construct a residence time distribution (RTD)
function for the tubular flow reactor. The experiment was carried out by setting up the reactor
by controlling the flow controller to a certain flowrate, so we can get a stable conductivity
value. The experiment was done in 2 sets for V9 and P1, V11 and P2. The values of
conductivity were recorded with regular interval of 30 seconds. The flowrate was run at
700mL/min.

The ‘age’ of a fluid element is defined as the time it has resided within the reactor. The concept
of a fluid element being a small volume relative to the size of the reactor yet sufficiently large
to exhibit continuous properties such as density and concentration. Fluid elements may require
differing lengths of time to travel through the reactor. The distribution of the exit times, defined
as the E(t) curve, is the RTD of the fluid. The outlet conductivity of a tracer species C(t) can
be used to define E(t). The value of E(t) is calculated for every single of time that is for each
30 seconds until reached 4 minutes where the outlet conductivity reaches to its constant value.

From the results, for pulse input in a tubular reactor, there were 2 graphs plotted that is graph
of Outlet conductivity (mS/cm) against Time (min) and graph of E(t) (min-1) against Time
(min). Both graphs show negative slope. As stated in the theory, the curve will end up in
negative values. Therefore, the area under the graph was calculated. The calculated value of
the area was 0.100 [Link]/m3 and 0.1 respectively. As for step change input in a turbular
reactor, both of the graph shows an increasing in value and reach constant after a certain
period. This is also proven in the theory of turbular flow reactor.

Variance is defined as the average value of the quantity (distance from mean)2. This average is
taken over the whole distribution. In this experiment, we are needed to determine the value of
the second moment (variance), σ2. The value for variance we get in this experiment is 7.5119.

We are also needed to calculate the value of the third moment (skewness), s3. The value of
skewness we get in this experiment is -14.6497. In this experiment also, we insist to calculate
the mean residence time, tm. The value we get for the mean residence time is 3.9502.

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