CFD simulation of bubble column reactor using population balance

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 8505-8516

  Ekambara, Kalekudithi ^a   Nandakumar, Kumar ^a   Joshi, Jyeshtharaj B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE FORMATION; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW PATTERNS; FORECASTING; GASES; KINETIC ENERGY; MIXED CONVECTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

AXIAL LOCATIONS; BUBBLE BREAKAGES; BUBBLE DIAMETERS; BUBBLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; BUBBLE SIZES; CFD SIMULATIONS; COLUMN REACTORS; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; GAS BUBBLES; GAS LIQUIDS; LIQUID VELOCITIES; MODEL PREDICTIONS; MULTIPLE SIZE GROUPS; NON UNIFORMS; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATIONS; POPULATION BALANCES; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENTS; RADIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM COLLISIONS; REYNOLDS STRESS MODELS; REYNOLDS STRESSES; SUPERFICIAL GAS VELOCITIES; TURBULENT EDDIES; TURBULENT ENERGY DISSIPATION RATES; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGIES; TWO-FLUID MODELS;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

EID: 56749112447     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie071393e     Document Type: Article

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