Supercritical water oxidation of Ion Exchange Resins in a stirred reactor: Numerical modelling

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 170-180

  Leybros, A ^a   Roubaud, A ^a   Guichardon, P ^b   Boutin, O ^b  

^a Research Department of Mining and Fuel Recycling ProCesses   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Computational Fluid ynamics; Hydrodynamics; Ion Exchange Resins; Multiphase flow; Supercritical fluid; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

2D SIMULATIONS; COMMERCIAL CODES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID; DISCRETE RANDOM WALK; EDDY DISSIPATION CONCEPT; EFFECT OF PARAMETERS; FEED FLOW RATE; NUMERICAL MODELLING; ORGANIC STRUCTURES; OXIDATION PROCESS; PARTICLE MODEL; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; REACTION TEMPERATURE; STIRRED REACTORS; STIRRING VELOCITY; SUPER-CRITICAL; SUPERCRITICAL OXIDATION; SUPERCRITICAL WATER; SUPERCRITICAL WATER OXIDATION; WATER FLOW MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; ION EXCHANGE RESINS; IONS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OXIDATION; SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

ION EXCHANGE;

EID: 83955165859     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.10.016     Document Type: Article

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