3.1 Apparatus setup
The apparatus of
the
Taylor-Couette reactor is illustrated in Figure 2(a). Two types of inner
cylinder are adopted in this study, one being the classical inner
cylinder with a circular cross-sectional profile and the other is a
lobed cross-sectional profile inner cylinder, whose cross section
consists of three identical arcs
connected by three tangential lines. Figure 2(b) displays the
cross-sectional profiles for both geometries. Here, the abbreviations of
CTC and LTC denote the classical
Taylor-Couette reactor and the lobed Taylor-Couette reactor,
respectively. The dimensions of the TC reactor are described in Table 1.
Table 1. Dimensions of the TC reactor.