CFD modeling of gas-liquid-solid mechanically agitated contactor

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1331-1344

  Panneerselvam, Ranganathan ^a   Savithri, Sivaraman ^a   Surender, Gerald Devasagayam ^a  

^a REGIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY CSIR   (India)

Author keywords

CFD; Critical impeller speed; Eulerian Eulerian; Gas liquid solid; Stirred tank

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); TANKS (CONTAINERS); TURBULENCE MODELS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CFD; CRITICAL IMPELLER SPEED; EULERIAN-EULERIAN; GAS-LIQUID-SOLID; STIRRED TANK;

GASES;

EID: 56849091063     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2008.08.008     Document Type: Article

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