Coupling of CFD with DPBM for an RDC extractor

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 721-732

  Drumm, Christian ^a   Attarakih, Menwer M ^b   Bart, Hans Jörg ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Breakup; Coalescence; Computational fluid dynamics; Extraction; Multiphase flow; Population balance

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING; BUBBLE COLUMNS; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; COALESCENCE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); DROP FORMATION; DROPS; DYNAMICS; EXTRACTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUIDS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MECHANICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TOLUENE; TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE MODELS; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS; AIR BUBBLES; BREAKUP; BUBBLE BREAK-UP; BUBBLE COALESCENCES; BUTYL ACETATES; CFD-CODES; CLASSES METHODS; COMBINED MODELS; COUNTER CURRENTS; DESIGN TOOLS; DISCRETIZATION; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; DROPLET DISTRIBUTIONS; DROPLET SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; EULERIAN; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FIXED PIVOT TECHNIQUES; INDUSTRIAL DEMANDS; INTERACTION PROCESS; LIQUID LIQUIDS; LIQUID-LIQUID DISPERSIONS; LIQUID-LIQUID EXTRACTIONS; MIXED MODELS; MULTI FLUIDS; POPULATION BALANCE; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATIONS; POPULATION BALANCE MODELS; QUADRATURE METHOD OF MOMENTS; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED TURBULENCE MODELS; SAUTER MEAN DIAMETERS; SIMULATION METHODS; THEORETICAL MODELS; TURBULENT DISPERSIONS; TWO FLUIDS; USER-DEFINED FUNCTIONS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 58949087677     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2008.05.041     Document Type: Article

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