CFD simulation of the hydrodynamics in an internal air-lift reactor with two different configurations

Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 455-462

  Ebrahimifakhar, Mona ^a   Mohsenzadeh, Elmira ^a   Moradi, Sadegh ^a   Moraveji, Mostafa ^a   Salimi, Mahmoud ^b  

^a ARAK UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

airlift reactor; bubbly flow; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); gas holdup; liquid circulation velocity

Indexed keywords

EID: 83355172726     PISSN: 20950179     EISSN: 20950187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11705-011-1116-x     Document Type: Article

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