Precipitation of nanoparticles in a T-mixer: Coupling the particle population dynamics with hydrodynamics through direct numerical simulation

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 908-916

  Gradl, Johannes ^a   Schwarzer, Hans Christoph ^b   Schwertfirm, Florian ^c   Manhart, Michael ^c   Peukert, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SÜD CHEMIE AG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Direct numeric simulation; Micromixing; Nanoparticle precipitation; Population balance; Supersaturation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SUPERSATURATION;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION (DNS); MICROMIXING; NANOPARTICLE PRECIPITATION; POPULATION BALANCE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SUPERSATURATION;

EID: 33646890660     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2005.11.012     Document Type: Article

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