CFD modeling of nucleation, growth, aggregation, and breakage in continuous precipitation of barium sulfate in a stirred tank

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 6992-7003

  Cheng, Jingcai ^a   Yang, Chao ^a,b   Mao, Zai Sha ^a   Zhao, Chengjun ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b Jiangsu Institute of Marine Resource Exploitation   (China)

^c Shijiazhuang Chemical Fiber Corporation   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION KERNELS; BARIUM SULFATE; BREAKAGE KERNEL; BROWNIAN MOTION; CFD CODES; CFD MODELING; CONTINUOUS PRECIPITATION; CONTINUOUS STIRRED TANK REACTOR; CRYSTAL SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FEED CONCENTRATION; HIGH FEED; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION; POWER-LAW; QUADRATURE METHOD OF MOMENTS; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; RATE EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; STANDARD METHOD; STIRRED TANK;

AGGLOMERATION; BARIUM; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TURBULENCE MODELS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 68849091847     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9004282     Document Type: Article

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