I am designing a batch reactor whereby an aqueous phase reacts with an organic phase.(immiscible)
The aqueous phase has a reactant completely dissolved in it so I am assuming it is 1 phase.
I have modelled the kinetics as homogeneous. However, I just read that due to the immiscibility of the liquid phases, mass transfer might control the rate rather than the kinetics, which I thought was only the case in heterogeneous reactions.
I want to supply sufficient mixing so to be able to neglect mass transfer and model the reaction in terms of kinetics. How do I know how much mixing is sufficient so to make this assumption?
Edited by SP500, 12 November 2016 - 01:31 PM.