Pellets
Use a Pellets plot in 2D () and 3D () plot groups to visualize a flow of pellets or similar objects as spheres or as three orthogonal filled circles (slices). Add Deformation, Translation, Transparency (3D only), and Visual Effects (3D only) subnodes as needed. Right-click a 3D Plot Group to add this plot from the More Point Plots submenu.
Go to Common Results Node Settings for links to information about these sections: Data, Selection, Expression, Title, Range, Quality. and Inherit Style.
Coloring and Style
Select the Radius scale factor check box to enter a scalar number for the scale factor.
Select the Shrinking core check box if you want to a space-dependent radius scale factor. You can use this functionality to study shrinking core phenomena. If selected, enter a radius in the Core radius field (default: 0), or click the Replace Expression button () to use a predefined expression. Also, choose a color from the Core color list (default: black). Select Custom to define a custom color using a color palette.
From the Pellet shape list, choose Sphere (the default) to visualize the pellets as spheres, or choose Slice to visualize the pellets as three orthogonal filled circles (slices). If you chose Sphere, you can also specify the following properties:
•
From the Axis list, select a main axis for the spheres that represent pellets: X-axis, Y-axis (the default), or Z-axis.
•
In the Start angle field, specify a start angle (default: 210 deg) for the sphere.
•
In the Revolution angle field, specify a revolution angle (default: 240 deg) for the spherical sector. Use 360 degrees for a full sphere. If the angle is less than 360 degrees, a corresponding spherical wedge is removed from the sphere.
For the Coloring, Color table, Color legend, Color table transformation, and Scale settings, see Common Results Node Settings.
If you have the Chemical Reaction Engineering Module, see A Multiscale 3D Packed Bed Reactor: Application Library path Chemical_Reaction_Engineering_Module/Reactors_with_Porous_Catalysts/packed_bed_reactor_3d.