Computational Modeling of Multiphase Reactors

Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages 347-378

  Joshi, J B ^a   Nandakumar, K ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY   (India)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

computational chemistry; computational fluid dynamics; gas liquid; gas liquid solid reactors; gas solid; liquid solid

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE COLUMNS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; IONIZATION OF GASES; LIQUIDS;

COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; GAS LIQUIDS; GAS SOLID; GAS-LIQUID-SOLID; LIQUID SOLIDS; PILOT-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; SPATIAL MEASUREMENTS;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

ALGORITHM; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; CATALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84938794857     PISSN: 19475438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-061114-123229     Document Type: Article

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