Investigation of multiphase flow in sequencing batch reactor (SBR) by means of hybrid methods

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1803-1813

  Diez L ^a   Zima, B E ^a   Kowalczyk, W ^a   Delgado, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial neuronal network (ANN); Bioreactors; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Multiphase flow; Simulation; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BIOREACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; NEURAL NETWORKS; TURBULENCE;

CALCULATION TIME; NUMEROEXPERIMENTAL HYBRIDS; THREE-PHASE PROBLEMS;

MULTIPHASE FLOW;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BIOREACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NEURAL NETWORKS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 33846794394     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.12.005     Document Type: Article

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