Experimental and numerical investigation of the precipitation of barium sulfate in a rotating liquid film reactor

AIChE Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2024-2034

  Guo, Shengchang ^a   Evans, David G ^a   Li, Dianqing ^a   Xue, Duan ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Barium sulfate; Computational fluid dynamics; Crystal size distribution; Population balance; Precipitation; Rotating liquid film reactor

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; CRYSTAL SIZE DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION BALANCE; PRECIPITATION; ROTATING LIQUID FILM REACTOR;

BARIUM; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LIQUID FILMS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); ROTATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STATORS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 68049118831     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11818     Document Type: Article

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