Scale-up and optimization of biohydrogen production reactor from laboratory-scale to industrial-scale on the basis of computational fluid dynamics simulation

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 10960-10966

  Wang, Xu ^a   Ding, Jie ^a   Guo, Wan Qian ^a   Ren, Nan Qi ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Continuous stirred tank reactor; Hydrodynamics; Hydrogen production; Optimization; Scale up

Indexed keywords

BIO-HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CFD SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; CONTINUOUS STIRRED TANK REACTOR; EULERIAN-EULERIAN COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; LABORATORY SCALE; SCALE-UP; STAGNATION ZONES; VELOCITY FIELD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; GAS PRODUCERS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; INDUSTRY; OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77956108692     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.07.060     Document Type: Article

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