Investigations on hydrodynamics and mass transfer in gas-liquid stirred reactor using computational fluid dynamics

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 3108-3124

  Ranganathan, Panneerselvam ^a   Sivaraman, Savithri ^a  

^a REGIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY CSIR   (India)

Author keywords

CFD; Hydrodynamics; Mass transfer; Multiphase flow; Population balance; Stirred reactor

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE DIAMETER; BUBBLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; CELL MODEL; CFD MODELS; DIFFERENT MASS; EQUATION BASED; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GAS HOLD UP; GAS LIQUIDS; GAS-LIQUID MASS TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATION; INTERFACIAL AREAS; LOCAL HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE-FRAME; PENETRATION THEORY; POLYDISPERSED FLOWS; POPULATION BALANCES; SLIP VELOCITY; STEADY-STATE METHOD; STIRRED REACTORS; STIRRED TANK REACTORS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

COALESCENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLED CIRCUITS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUIDS; MASS TRANSFER; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POLYDISPERSITY; POPULATION STATISTICS; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 79958734906     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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