Computational fluid dynamics modeling of biomass gasification in circulating fluidized-bed reactor using the eulerian-eulerian approach

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 51, 2013, Pages 18162-18174

  Liu, Hui ^a   Elkamel, Ali ^a   Lohi, Ali ^b   Biglari, Mazda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CFD (COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS); CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; EULERIAN-EULERIAN APPROACH; HETEROGENEOUS REACTIONS; KINETIC THEORY OF GRANULAR FLOW; STEADY-STATE MODELING; WATER-GAS-SHIFT REACTIONS;

BIOMASS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZED BEDS; TURBULENCE MODELS; WATER GAS SHIFT;

GASIFICATION;

EID: 84891391550     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie4024148     Document Type: Article

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