Optimization design for DTB industrial crystallizer of potassium chloride

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 10297-10302

  Song, Xingfu ^a   Zhang, Menghua ^a   Wang, Jin ^a   Li, Ping ^a   Yu, Jianguo ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CFD SIMULATIONS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CRYSTAL PRODUCT; CRYSTAL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; FLUENT6; FLUID FLOW FIELD; HEXAGONAL GRID; INDUSTRIAL CRYSTALLIZERS; MULTIPLE-REFERENCE FRAMES; OPERATING CONDITION; OPTIMIZATION DESIGN; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PRODUCT QUALITY; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION; SALT LAKES; SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION; TWO PHASE FLOW MODEL;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZERS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY; STRUCTURAL FRAMES; TURBULENCE MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 78049376283     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie100786f     Document Type: Conference Paper

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