Modeling of annular reactors with surface reaction using computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1201-1211

  Duran, J Esteban ^a   Mohseni, Madjid ^a   Taghipour, Fariborz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Annular reactor; CFD; Reaction engineering; Simulation; Surface reaction; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR REACTORS; CATALYTIC DECOMPOSITION; CFD; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXTERNAL MASS TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; INTRINSIC REACTION RATE; KINETIC BEHAVIOR; LAMINAR FLOW CONDITIONS; LAMINAR MODEL; LIMITING CONDITION; MASS TRANSFER LIMITATION; MODEL REACTIONS; OXIDE CATALYSTS; REACTING SYSTEM; REACTION ENGINEERING; REYNOLDS STRESS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LAMINAR FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RATE CONSTANTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SIMULATORS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE MODELS;

SURFACE REACTIONS;

EID: 71549148369     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2009.09.075     Document Type: Article

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