Modeling of heat transfer in a moving packed bed: Case of the preheater in nickel carbonyl process

Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-53

  Henda, Redhouane ^a   Falcioni, Daniel J ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Falconbridge Limited   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; IRON ORE PELLETS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PREHEATING; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

GASEOUS ATMOSPHERE; MOVING PACKED BED; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; VOLUME AVERAGING METHOD;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 33645675273     PISSN: 00218936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1991862     Document Type: Conference Paper

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