Using CFD to describe the hydrodynamics of internal air-lift reactors

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 81, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 660-668

  Van Baten, Jasper M ^a   Ellenberger, Jürg ^a   Krishna, Rajamani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; REACTOR CORES;

AIRLIFT REACTORS; SUPERFICIAL GAS VELOCITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

AIRLIFT REACTOR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; WAVE;

AIRLIFT REACTOR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; GAS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; REACTOR; SURFACE TENSION; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 2942656794     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450810344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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