Hydrodynamic modeling of fluidized-bed crystallizers with use of the multiphase CFD method

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 48, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 1527-1533

  Wójcik, Janusz ^a   Plewik, Roch ^a  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Computation; Crystallization; Fluid mechanics; Fluidization

Indexed keywords

CFD METHOD; COMPUTATION; FLUIDIZED-BED CRYSTALLIZER; HYDRODYNAMIC MODELING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLIZERS; FLUID DYNAMICS; MECHANICS; SIMULATORS;

FLUIDIZATION;

EID: 71549146242     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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