Digital predictions of complex cylinder packed columns

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-21

  Caulkin, R ^a   Ahmad, A ^a   Fairweather, M ^a   Jia, X ^a   Williams, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cylindrical pellets; Digital packing algorithm; Packed beds; Voidage

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CODES (SYMBOLS); DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; FORECASTING; PELLETIZING; SPHERES;

BED STRUCTURES; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES; CYLINDRICAL PARTICLES; CYLINDRICAL PELLETS; DIGITAL PACKING ALGORITHM; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; LOCAL VOIDAGE; PACKED COLUMNS; PACKING ALGORITHMS; PACKING STRUCTURES; PARTICLE MOVEMENTS; RANDOM WALKS; SIMULATION SPEEDS; UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES; VOIDAGE; WILLIAMS;

PACKED BEDS;

EID: 56949088146     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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