A coupled DEM and CFD simulation of flow field and pressure drop in fixed bed reactor with randomly packed catalyst particles

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 4060-4074

  Bai, Hua ^a   Theuerkauf, Jörg ^a   Gillis, Paul A ^a   Witt, Paul M ^a  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-PRIORI; CATALYST DESIGNS; CATALYST PARTICLES; CATALYST PERFORMANCE; CFD MODELS; CFD-SIMULATIONS; COMMERCIAL CHEMICALS; CORRECTION FACTORS; CYLINDRICAL PARTICLES; DEM SIMULATIONS; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHODS; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FIXED BED REACTORS; GRID GENERATIONS; HOMOGENEOUS MODELS; INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS; LABORATORY-SCALE; PACKED BED; PACKED BED REACTORS; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; PRE PROCESSORS; PROCESS PRESSURES; RANDOM PACKINGS; REACTOR DESIGNS; STRUCTURED PACKINGS; TUBE WALLS; UNIT OPERATIONS;

CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL OPERATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COUPLED CIRCUITS; DROPS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MESH GENERATION; PACKING; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYDISPERSITY; PRESSURE DROP; PRODUCT DESIGN; SURVEYING; TRACKING RADAR; TUBES (COMPONENTS); VOID FRACTION;

PACKED BEDS;

EID: 65249095586     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie801548h     Document Type: Article

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