A novel airlift reactor enhanced by funnel internals and hydrodynamics prediction by the CFD method

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 104, Issue , 2012, Pages 600-607

  Zhang, Tao ^a   Wei, Chaohai ^a   Feng, Chunhua ^a   Zhu, Jialiang ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Airlift reactor; CFD; Hydrodynamics; Internals

Indexed keywords

AIR-LIFT REACTORS; BENCH SCALE REACTOR; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CFD (COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS); CFD METHOD; CFD MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOW CONDITION; GAS HOLD UP; GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; GRID-INDEPENDENT; HYDRODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSS; INTERNALS; SIMULATION METHODS; SUPERFICIAL GAS VELOCITIES; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

BIOREACTOR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; KINETIC ENERGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TWO PHASE FLOW; VELOCITY;

AIRLIFT REACTOR; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURBULENT FLOW;

AIR; BIOREACTORS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 84655164868     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.11.008     Document Type: Article

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