Large eddy simulations and stereoscopic particle image velocimetry measurements in a scraped heat exchanger crystallizer geometry

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2127-2135

  Rodriguez Pascual, M ^a   Ravelet, F ^b   Delfos, R ^a   Derksen, J J ^c   Witkamp, G J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b lnstitut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse ^*  (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemical reactors; Crystallization; Fluid mechanics; Heat transfer; Lattice Boltzmann method; Scaling; Scraped heat exchanger crystallizers

Indexed keywords

COLD SPOTS; CONSTANT TEMPERATURES; FLUID FLOWS; HEAT EXCHANGING SURFACES; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS; LATTICE-BOLTZMANN METHOD; PROCESS PERFORMANCE; SCALING; SCRAPED HEAT EXCHANGER CRYSTALLIZERS; STEREOSCOPIC PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; STEREOSCOPIC PIV; TRANSPORT PHENOMENON; WORKING FLUIDS;

AIR CONDITIONING DUCTS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; CHEMICALS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); CRYSTALLIZATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUIDS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; KINETIC THEORY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TOOLS; TURBULENCE;

CRYSTALLIZERS;

EID: 63249114553     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2009.01.034     Document Type: Article

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