Fluid-dynamics scale-up problems in the DTM crystallizer

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 77, Issue , 2012, Pages 78-84

  Synowiec, Piotr Maria ^a,b   MaŁysiak, Agata ^a   Wójcik, Janusz ^a  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Fertilizer Research Institute   (Poland)

Author keywords

CFD; DTM crystallizer; Fluid dynamics; Scale up

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION TIME; DTM CRYSTALLIZERS; GEOMETRIC SIMILARITY; POWER INPUT; SCALE-UP; TIP SPEED;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

CRYSTALLIZERS;

EID: 84862856699     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2012.04.018     Document Type: Article

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