Numerical study on the effect of the air jets at the inlet distributor in the gas-solids circulating fluidized-bed risers

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5310-5322

  Peng, Botao ^a   Zhu, Jesse ^a   Zhang, Chao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR JET; CFD MODELS; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; EULERIAN-EULERIAN APPROACH; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; INLET CONDITIONS; JET INLETS; LATERAL FLOW; MODEL-BASED; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; SIMULATION RESULT;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLUIDIZATION; GAS DYNAMICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

INLET FLOW;

EID: 77952895777     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie901902j     Document Type: Article

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