A two-scale PBM for modeling turbulent flocculation in water treatment processes

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2157-2168

  Ducoste, Joel ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Flocculation; Modeling; Population balance; Scale up

Indexed keywords

FLOCCULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE;

POPULATION BALANCE MODELS (PBM);

WATER TREATMENT;

FLOCCULATION; TURBULENT FLOW; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 0037189454     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(02)00108-2     Document Type: Article

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