3D CFD simulation of hydrodynamics of a 150MWe circulating fluidized bed boiler

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 821-828

  Zhang, Nan ^a,b   Lu, Bona ^a,b   Wang, Wei ^a   Li, Jinghai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

CFD; Circulating fluidized bed; Fluidization; Hydrodynamics; Multiphase flow; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CFD; CFD SIMULATIONS; CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BED; CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BED BOILER; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; EULERIAN GRANULAR MULTIPHASE MODEL; MULTISCALES; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; PRESSURE PROFILES; SIMULATION RESULT; SOLID FLUX; SOLIDS CIRCULATION; SOLIDS VOLUME FRACTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TIME DEPENDENT SIMULATION; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

BOILERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZED BED PROCESS; FLUIDIZED BEDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FLUIDIZATION;

EID: 77955280532     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.06.033     Document Type: Article

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