Predicting precipitate particle breakage in a pipeline: Effect of agitation intensity during precipitate formation

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 61, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 7991-8003

  Zumaeta, Nixon ^a   Byrne, Edmond P ^a   Fitzpatrick, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Breakage; CFD; Particle processing; Precipitation; Predictive modelling; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; PIPE FLOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

BREAKAGE; PARTICLE PROCESSING; PREDICTIVE MODELING;

PROTEINS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; PIPE FLOW; PROTEINS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 33750943494     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.08.047     Document Type: Article

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