The development of a CFD model of a submerged arc furnace for phosphorus production

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1115-1125

  Scheepers, E ^a   Adema, A T ^a   Yang, Y ^a   Reuter, M A ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Mineral Processing; Modelling; Pyrometallurgy

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC ARCS; PHOSPHORUS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; FURNACE CHARACTERISTICS; MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS; MODELING;

ELECTRIC FURNACES;

EID: 33747373130     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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