Prediction of photocatalytic air purifier apparatus performances with a CFD approach using experimentally determined kinetic parameters

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 5067-5074

  Queffeulou, Amélie ^a   Geron, Laurent ^b   Schaer, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b ARCELORMITTAL   (France)

Author keywords

Acetaldehyde; Computational fluid dynamics; Indoor air pollution; Photocatalysis; Photoreactor; Thin film

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; AIR PURIFIERS; CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTIONS; CONCENTRATION OF; DIRECT ACCESS; ENCLOSED SPACES; INDOOR AIR; INTRINSIC KINETIC PARAMETERS; LOW CONCENTRATION LEVELS; MODEL FLUIDS; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOREACTOR; PHOTOREACTORS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE THIN FILM;

AIR; AIR CLEANERS; AIR QUALITY; ALDEHYDES; BATCH REACTORS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CLEAN ROOMS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FORECASTING; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; KINETIC PARAMETERS; NEWTONIAN FLOW; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PURIFICATION; REACTION RATES; THIN FILMS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; VAPOR DEPOSITION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77955424436     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.05.024     Document Type: Article

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