Computational fluid dynamics simulation of a transpiring wall reactor for supercritical water oxidation

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 431-440

  Bermejo, María Dolores ^a   Martín, Ángel ^a,b   Queiroz, Joao P S ^a   Bielsa, Iván ^a   Ríos, Vicente ^a   Cocero, María José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

CFD model; Energy; Heat capacity; k turbulence model; Mass and momentum conservation equations; Peng Robinson Equation of State; Supercritical water oxidation SCWO; Transpiring wall reactor

Indexed keywords

CFD MODELS; ENERGY; HEAT CAPACITIES; MOMENTUM CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; PENG-ROBINSON EQUATION OF STATE; SUPERCRITICAL WATER OXIDATION; TRANSPIRING WALL REACTORS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EFFLUENTS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FLUID DYNAMICS; MOMENTUM; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SPECIFIC HEAT; TURBULENCE MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77649341617     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.01.013     Document Type: Article

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