Compara mètodes

	Model PFR	Destil·lació reactiva
Camp	Física aplicada	Física aplicada
Família	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Any d'origen	1962	1995
Autor original	Octave Levenspiel	Klaus Sundmacher
Tipus	Mathematical model for plug-flow reactor	Integrated reaction-separation process model
Font seminal	Levenspiel, O. (1999). Chemical Reaction Engineering (3rd ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 978-0-471-25424-9	Sundmacher, K., & Kienle, A. (2003). Reactive Distillation: Status and Future Directions. Wiley-VCH. ISBN: 978-3-527-30623-9
Àlies	ideal tubular reactor, plug-flow model, PFR	integrated distillation-reaction, reactive column, reaction with separation
Relacionats	3	4
Resum	The PFR (Plug Flow Reactor) model describes the behavior of a tubular reactor in which fluid elements move through as distinct plugs with no axial mixing. Fluid at the inlet is freshly unreacted; as it travels downstream, reactions progress. This idealized model, formalized by Octave Levenspiel alongside CSTR theory, is the opposite extreme: while CSTRs are fully mixed, PFRs have no axial mixing. In practice, PFRs achieve higher conversion than CSTRs for the same residence time and are widely used in the chemical and petroleum industries.	Reactive distillation couples reaction and separation in a single column, where reactants are separated from products continuously while simultaneously undergoing reaction on catalytic trays. Pioneered in the 1990s by Klaus Sundmacher and others, this process intensification technique dramatically reduces capital cost, energy consumption, and environmental impact for suitable reactions. It is now industrially proven for esterification, hydration, and transesterification processes.