Gas-liquid simulation of an airlift bubble column reactor

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 137-144

  Blazej M ^a   Cartland Glover, G M ^b   Generalis, S C ^b   Markos J ^a  

^a SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airlift reactor (ALR); CFD; Circulation velocity; Computational fluid dynamics; Fluent; Gas holdup; Modelling of hydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; PRESSURE DROP;

AIRLIFT REACTORS;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

AIRLIFT REACTOR; BUBBLE COLUMN; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW VELOCITY; TWO-PHASE FLOW;

EID: 0242666808     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0255-2701(03)00010-2     Document Type: Article

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