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.