Liquor flow in a model kraft batch digester

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-60

  Lee, Quak Foo ^a   Bennington, Chad P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Batch digesters; Computational modelling; Electrical resistance tomography; Kraft pulping; Liquor flow uniformity

Indexed keywords

CFD CODES; CLOSE APPROXIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; CROSS CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY; FLOW CONDITION; HEAT DISTRIBUTION; INDUSTRIAL TESTS; KAPPA NUMBERS; KRAFT PULPING; LABORATORY SCALE; LIGNIN DISTRIBUTION; LIQUOR FLOWS; LOCAL FLOWS; NONUNIFORM; NONUNIFORMITY; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; SOLID-LIQUID; STAGNATION POINTS; SUPERFICIAL VELOCITY; TOMOGRAPHIC; TOMOGRAPHIC DATA; WALL EFFECTS; WOOD CHIP;

BATCH REACTORS; CHEMICAL PULP; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DELIGNIFICATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FLOW VELOCITY; KRAFT PROCESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIXELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WOOD PRODUCTS;

PULP DIGESTERS;

BATCH DIGESTERS; CHEMICAL PULPS; DELIGNIFICATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FLUID; FLUID DYNAMICS; KRAFT PULPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 77549087072     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2008.08.042     Document Type: Article

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