Enhanced dispersion in cylindrical packed beds

The effective longitudinal dispersion constant, DLeff, in cylindrical packed beds is larger than in the bulk due to the existence of radial inhomogeneities induced by the cylinder walls. For dense random packed beds, DLeff can be several times larger than the bulk value, even for arbitrarily large cylinder radius, R. The time-scale for attaining asymptotic dispersion rates in a cylindrical geometry is neither the convective nor the diffusive time-scale, but rather DT/R2, where DT is the bulk transverse dispersion rate. Similar effects are predicted for packed beds confined in ducts of any cross-sectional geometry. The case of a rectangular duct, compared with an infinite slit, provides an intuitive model for the influence of walls in the limit as R goes to infinity.

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