One-group reduced population balance model for CFD simulation of a pilot-plant extraction column

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3442-3452

  Drumm, Christian ^a   Attarakih, Menwer ^a,b   Hlawitschka, Mark W ^a   Bart, Hans Jörg ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT; CFD SIMULATIONS; CFD SOLVER; COMPUTER-AIDED PROCESS ENGINEERINGS; DROPLET BEHAVIORS; DROPLET DIAMETERS; EFFICIENT SIMULATION; ELSEVIER; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LARGE-SCALE INDUSTRIAL PROCESS; LIQUID-LIQUID EXTRACTION; LITERATURE DATA; NEW MODEL; NEW YORK; ONE-EQUATION; ONE-EQUATION MODEL; PHASE VOLUME FRACTION; PLANT EXTRACTION; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION; POPULATION BALANCE MODELS; POPULATION BALANCES; PRIMARY PARTICLES; SECONDARY PARTICLES; TOTAL NUMBER CONCENTRATIONS; TRANSPORT EQUATION; TWO-EQUATION MODEL;

COALESCENCE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROP FORMATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; LIQUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANT SHUTDOWNS; ROTATING DISKS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 77950408368     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie901411e     Document Type: Article

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