Chemical Reactor Modeling
Multiphase Reactive Flows
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Multiphase Flow
In this chapter the pertinent multiphase modeling concepts established in fluid mechanics are examined.
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Experimental Techniques
A problem associated with the use of average multiphase models for chemical reactor performance analyzes is the requirement of experimental data enabling proper model validation. The choice of averaging proced...
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Interfacial Transport Phenomena Closures
The macroscopic multi-phase models resulting from the local averaging procedures must be supplemented with state equations, constitutive equations, boundary and initial conditions. The constitutive equations spec...
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Agitation and Fluid Mixing Technology
Many industrial processes rely on effective agitation and mixing of fluids.
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The Population Balance Equation
The chemical engineering community began the first efforts that can be associated with the concepts of the population balance in the early 1960s.
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Fluidized Bed Reactors
In this chapter the characteristics of fluidized gas–solid suspensions are described, and the basic designs of fluidized bed reactors are sketched. Several modeling approaches that have been applied to describ...
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Elementary Kinetic Theory of Gases
In this chapter emphasis is placed on the mathematical derivation of the governing equations of gas dynamics from first principles using the kinetic theory concepts. The prerequisite elementary concepts and no...
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Numerical Solution Methods
In this chapter several numerical methods frequently employed in reactor engineering are introduced. To simulate the important phenomena determining single- and multiphase reactive flows, mathematical equation...
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Flows of Granular Materials
In this chapter the derivation of the governing macroscopic two-fluid equations of granular flow are examined.
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Chemical Reaction Engineering
Chemical reaction engineering (CRE) emerged as a methodology that quantifies the interplay between transport phenomena and kinetics on a variety of scales and allows formulation of quantitative models for vari...
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Bubble Column Reactors
In this chapter the elementary hydrodynamic characteristics of simple bubble columns are summarized. Different designs of bubble columns are sketched, and examples of their industrial applications are outlined...
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Single Phase Flow
In this chapter the governing equations of change for single-phase reactive mixtures are presented.
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Packed Bed Reactors
The discovery of solid catalysts led to a breakthrough of the chemical process industry. Today most commercial gas-phase catalytic processes are carried out in fixed packed bed reactors.
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A Survey of Multicomponent Mass Diffusion Flux Closures for Porous Pellets: Mass and Molar Forms
Heterogeneous catalysis is of paramount importance in many areas of gas conversion and processing in chemical engineering industries. In porous pellets, the catalytic reactions may be affected by diffusional l...
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Open AccessNumerical study of hydrogen production by the sorption-enhanced steam methane reforming process with online CO2 capture as operated in fluidized bed reactors
A three-dimensional (3D) Eulerian two-fluid model with an in-house code was developed to simulate the gas-particle two-phase flow in the fluidized bed reactors. The CO2 capture with Ca-based sorbents in the steam...
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Mathematical Theorems
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Equation of Change for Temperature for a Multicomponent System
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Single Phase Flow
