Multiphase flow packed-bed reactor modeling: Combining CFD and cell network model

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 4940-4948

  Jiang, Yi ^a   Guo, Jing ^b   Al Dahhan, Muthanna H ^b  

^a Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CFD MODELING; MULTIPHASE FLOW PACKED BED REACTORS; PLUG FLOW MODEL (PFM); TRACKLE-BED REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MIXING; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

PACKED BEDS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PACKED BED;

EID: 22944459882     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0491746     Document Type: Article

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