Eulerian simulation strategy for scaling up a bubble column slurry reactor for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 4483-4493

  Van Baten, J M ^a   Krishna, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENCE;

AXIAL DISPERSION; BUBBLE COLUMN SLURRY REACTORS; EULERIAN SIMULATION STRATEGY; SLURRY PHASE;

SLURRIES;

BUBBLE COLUMN; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EULERIAN-LAGRANGIAN ALGORITHM; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION; REACTOR; SLURRY;

ARTICLE; BUBBLE COLUMN REACTOR; DISPERSION; FISCHER TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

EID: 3543023304     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0340286     Document Type: Article

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