Scaling up bubble column reactors with the aid of CFD

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 283-309

  Krishna, R ^a   Van Baten, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bubble columns; Bubble interactions; Bubble rise; CFD; Flow regimes; Hold up; Scale up strategy

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE COLUMNS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRAPOLATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW;

BUBBLE COLUMN REACTORS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

BUBBLE COLUMN; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; REACTOR; SCALING; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0035297532     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1205/026387601750281815     Document Type: Article

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