Hydrodynamics of internal air-lift reactors: Experiments versus CFD simulations

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 733-742

  van Baten, J M ^a   Ellenberger, J ^a   Krishna, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Airlift reactor; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Gas hold up; Liquid circulations; Scale effects

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENCE;

INTERNAL AIR-LIFT REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

AIRLIFT REACTOR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0037972390     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0255-2701(02)00076-4     Document Type: Article

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