Overview of Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Reactor-Scale Biomass Pyrolysis

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 2783-2798

  Xiong, Qingang ^a   Yang, Yang ^b   Xu, Fei ^c   Pan, Yaoyu ^c   Zhang, Jingchao ^d   Hong, Kun ^a   Lorenzini, Giulio ^e   Wang, Shurong ^f  

^a HUAIYIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^f ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass pyrolysis; Computational fluid dynamics; Discrete particle model; Multifluid model; Porous media model; Reactor scale

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; BIOMASS; DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; KINETICS; POROUS MATERIALS; PYROLYSIS; REACTION KINETICS;

BIOMASS PYROLYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; DISCRETE PARTICLE MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; MULTI-FLUID MODELS; PYROLYSIS REACTION; REACTOR-SCALE; SCIENTIFIC STUDIES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 85016955416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b02634     Document Type: Article

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