Modeling and experimental verification of a corrugated plate photocatalytic reactor using computational fluid dynamics

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 9077-9086

  Passalía, Claudio ^a,b   Alfano, Orlando M ^a,b   Brandi, Rodolfo J ^a,b  

^a Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnologico para la Industria Quimica   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC WALLS; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; CORRUGATED PLATE; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; GASEOUS FORMALDEHYDE; HETEROGENEOUS PHOTOCATALYSIS; INDOOR POLLUTANTS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MODEL PREDICTION; PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTORS; RADIATIVE INTERACTIONS; REACTOR CONFIGURATION; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; STAINLESS STEEL PLATE; VIEW FACTOR;

FORMALDEHYDE; LIGHTING; PHOTOCATALYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; STAINLESS STEEL; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 79960884735     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie200756t     Document Type: Article

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