Numerical approach to modeling of dynamic bubble columns

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-15

  Romanainen, Jari J ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dynamic bubble column; Reaction kinetics; Solution methods

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; CHLORINATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FILMS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTEGRATION; ISOTHERMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; REACTION KINETICS;

AUTOCATALYTIC MODIFICATION; AXIAL DISPERSION MODEL; DISCRETIZATION METHODS; DYNAMIC COLUMN SIMULATION; MULTIPOINT FINITE DIFFERENCE FORMULA; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (ODE); SPARSE MATRIX TECHNIQUES;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS-BUBBLE; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL;

EID: 0031081347     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0255-2701(96)04161-X     Document Type: Article

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