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	Modèle de réacteur piston	Distillation Réactive
Domaine	Physique appliquée	Physique appliquée
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1962	1995
Auteur d'origine	Octave Levenspiel	Klaus Sundmacher
Type	Mathematical model for plug-flow reactor	Integrated reaction-separation process model
Source fondatrice	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
Alias	ideal tubular reactor, plug-flow model, PFR	integrated distillation-reaction, reactive column, reaction with separation
Apparentées	3	4
Résumé	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.