Numerical simulation of gas dispersion in an aerated stirred reactor with multiple impellers

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 7112-7117

  Min, Jian ^a   Bao, Yuyun ^a   Chen, Lei ^a   Gao, Zhengming ^a   Smith, John M ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; FLOW SIMULATION; TWO PHASE FLOW; VOID FRACTION;

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GAS DISPERSION; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; STIRRED REACTORS; VOID FRACTION DISTRIBUTIONS;

BLOWERS;

EID: 53349109582     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie800490j     Document Type: Article

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