Modeling circulating fluidized bed downers

Powder Technology

Volumn 132, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 85-100

  Bolkan, Yasemin ^a   Berruti, Franco ^b   Zhu, Jesse ^b   Milne, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circulating fluidized beds; Clusters; Downer modeling

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

DOWNER REACTORS;

FLUIDIZED BEDS;

CIRCULATION; DOWNER; FLUIDIZED BED; GAS-SOLID TWO-PHASE FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELING; SUSPENSION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICISM; FLUID FLOW; FLUIDIZED BED; FRICTION; GAS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PARAMETER; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESSURE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SOLID; SUSPENSION; VELOCITY;

EID: 0038799722     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-5910(03)00059-7     Document Type: Article

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