Modeling of a two-phase countercurrent pulsed sieve plate extraction column - A hybrid CFD and radiotracer RTD analysis approach

Separation and Purification Technology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 302-309

  Din, Ghiyas Ud ^a,b   Chughtai, Imran Rafiq ^a   Inayat, Mansoor Hameed ^a   Khan, Iqbal Hussain ^b   Qazi, Nasrullah Khan ^b  

^a PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Liquid liquid extraction; Radiotracer; Residence Time Distribution (RTD)

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS APPROACH; CFD SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; COUNTER CURRENT; EFFECT OF PULSE; EULER-EULER; EXTRACTION COLUMNS; LIQUID-LIQUID EXTRACTION; POROUS MEDIA; PULSE GENERATION; RADIOTRACER; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; SIEVE PLATES; SIMULATION APPROACH; SIMULATION RESULT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; LIQUIDS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; POROUS PLATES; PULSE GENERATORS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SIEVES; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; TURBULENCE MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77955307965     PISSN: 13835866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2010.04.017     Document Type: Article

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