Abstract
Heat transfer to a fully developed laminar flow in a parallel-plate wall reactor, which is a variation of the so-called tube-wall reactor, was analyzed theoretically. The heat conduction in the reactor wall is accounted for, and it is assumed that an interfacial reaction simply causes uniform heat generation or such heat generation as decreases linearly along the flow.
The influence of the interfacial heat generation on the interfacial temperature was found to be significant, and the influence of the conductance ratio of wall to fluid Rw thereon was found to be more significant than for the case without heat generation. With respect to the local Nusselt number, when the heat generation varies along the direction of flow, the influence of the heat generation is significant and the influence of Rw tends to be increased.
In addition to the above, experiments were carried out in which heat was generated electrically at the interface. The experimental results agreed fairly well with the theoretical predictions.
