Suspension flow in crystallizers with and without hydraulic classification

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1194-1199

  Plewik, Roch ^a   Synowiec, Piotr ^a,b   Wójcik, Janusz ^a   Kuś, Agata ^a  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPOLYMERS AND CHEMICAL FIBRES   (Poland)

Author keywords

CFD; Crystallizer; DDT; DTM; Fluidized bed; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

AXIAL-VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; CFD; CFD (COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS); CIRCULATION LOOP; DDT; DRAFT TUBES; DTM; MONO-DISPERSED; SUSPENSION FLOWS;

CRYSTALLIZERS; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; HYDRAULIC TURBINES; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TWO PHASE FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77956188288     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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