Simulation of ammonia removal from industrial wastewater streams by means of a hollow-fiber membrane contactor

Desalination

Volumn 285, Issue , 2012, Pages 383-392

  Rezakazemi, Mashallah ^a   Shirazian, Saeed ^a   Ashrafizadeh, Seyed Nezameddin ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ammonia removal; CFD; Mass transfer; Membrane contactor; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA MOLECULES; AMMONIA REMOVAL; AMMONIA STRIPPING; CFD TECHNIQUE; CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTIONS; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; DEVELOPED MODEL; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FEED CONCENTRATION; FEED TANKS; FEED VELOCITY; HOLLOW FIBER MEMBRANE CONTACTORS; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER STREAMS; KNUDSEN DIFFUSION; MATLAB- SOFTWARE; MEMBRANE CONTACTOR; MEMBRANE PORES; MODEL EQUATIONS; MULTI-PHYSICS; UNSTEADY STATE; VELOCITY FIELD;

AMMONIA; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATLAB; MEMBRANES; PH EFFECTS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); VELOCITY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

AMMONIA; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MASS TRANSFER; MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84855202419     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.10.030     Document Type: Article

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