Falling film melt crystallization (II): Model to simulate the dynamic sweating using fractal porous media theory

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 91, Issue , 2013, Pages 111-121

  Jiang, Xiaobin ^a,b   Hou, Baohong ^a   He, Gaohong ^b   Wang, Jingkang ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fractals; Melt crystallization; Porous media; Separations; Simulation; Sweating

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; POROUS MATERIALS; SEPARATION;

CHARACTERISTIC FACTORS; CHARACTERISTIC PARAMETER; CRYSTAL LAYER; DYNAMIC CHANGES; FALLING FILM; FRACTAL POROUS MEDIA; FRACTAL POROUS MEDIUM; HYPOTHETICAL MODELS; MASS BALANCE; MELT CRYSTALLIZATION; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MODEL SYSTEM; SIMULATED RESULTS; SIMULATION; SWEATING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84873499783     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2012.12.048     Document Type: Article

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