Hysteresis in cloud heights during solid suspension in stirred tank reactor: Experiments and CFD simulations

AIChE Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2795-2804

  Sardeshpande, Madhavi V ^a,b   Juvekar, Vinay A ^b   Ranade, Vivek V ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

CFD; Hysteresis in cloud height; Solid velocity profiles

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC REACTIONS; CFD; CFD SIMULATIONS; CLOUD HEIGHTS; COMPLEX SOLIDS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HYSTERESIS IN CLOUD HEIGHT; IMPELLER SPEED; IN-PROCESS; KEY ISSUES; PARTICLE CHARACTERISTICS; REDUCING POWER; SIMULATED RESULTS; SOLID LIQUID FLOW; SOLID SUSPENSIONS; SOLID VELOCITY PROFILES; STIRRED REACTORS; STIRRED TANK REACTORS; STIRRED VESSELS; ULTRASOUND VELOCITY PROFILER; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS;

CATALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTS; HYSTERESIS; IMPELLERS; LIQUIDS; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 78650331431     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12191     Document Type: Article

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