On the design of the RTO unit using CFD

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 17-18, 2006, Pages 2327-2335

  Abanto, Juan ^a   Reggio, Marcelo ^a   Painchaud Ouellet, Simon ^b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Design; Regenerative thermal oxidation (RTO); Volatile organic compounds (VOC)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THERMOOXIDATION;

FLOW MIXING TANK; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; REGENERATIVE THERMAL OXIDATION (RTO); STEADY-STATE FLOW FIELD;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 33745503058     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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