Computational fluid dynamics modelling and optimal configuring of a channelled optical fibre photoreactor

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5029-5040

  Denny, Frans ^a   Scott, Jason ^a   Pareek, Vishnu ^b   Peng, Gang Ding ^a   Amal, Rose ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

CFD; Channelled optical fibre; Ethylene; Langmuir Hinshelwood; Photocatalytic; Titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

AIR CHANNELS; CFD; CHANNEL CONFIGURATION; CHANNEL WALL; COATED CHANNELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; DISCRETE ORDINATES; ETHYLENE CONCENTRATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GAS FLOWRATE; LANGMUIR-HINSHELWOOD; OPTICAL FIBRE; OUTER ARC; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; PHOTOCATALYTIC TITANIUM DIOXIDE; PHOTOREACTORS; RADIATION DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION MODELS; SIMULATION RESULT; SPATIAL DISTANCE; TIO; VELOCITY VECTOR DISTRIBUTION;

ETHYLENE; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; FLUID DYNAMICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; OXIDES; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77954625413     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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