CFD simulation of natural gas sweetening in a gas-liquid hollow-fiber membrane contactor

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1217-1226

  Rezakazemi, Mashallah ^a   Niazi, Zahra ^a   Mirfendereski, Mojtaba ^a   Shirazian, Saeed ^a   Mohammadi, Toraj ^a   Pak, Afshin ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Amine aqueous solution; Hollow fiber membrane contactor; Natural gas sweetening; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CFD SIMULATIONS; CFD TECHNIQUE; CHEMICAL ABSORPTION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOW RATIOS; GAS LIQUIDS; GAS SWEETENINGS; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE CONTACTORS; LIQUID VELOCITIES; MEMBRANE MODULE; METHYLDIETHANOLAMINE; MODEL EQUATIONS; MODELING PREDICTIONS; MOMENTUM EQUATION; NATURAL GAS SWEETENING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RADIAL DIFFUSION; SHELL-SIDE; SIMULATION RESULT;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBERS; GASES; MEMBRANES; NATURAL GAS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOLUTIONS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 79953733496     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2011.02.019     Document Type: Article

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