
Numerical Simulation of Multiphase Reactors with Continuous Liquid Phase
Description
Key Features
- Provides practical applications for using multiphase stirred tanks, reactors, and microreactors, with detailed explanation of investigation methods
- Presents the most recent research efforts in this highly active field on multiphase reactors and crystallizers
- Covers mathematical models, numerical methods and experimental techniques for multiphase flow and mass transfer in reactors and crystallizers
Readership
Chemical and petrochemical engineers; graduate and undergraduate students; engineers in chemical and petrochemical, hydrometallurgical and pharmaceutical scientists
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Fluid flow and mass transfer on particle scale
- Abstract
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Theoretical basis
- 2.3. Numerical methods
- 2.4. Buoyancy-driven motion and mass transfer of a single particle
- 2.5. Mass transfer-induced Marangoni effect
- 2.6. Behavior of particle swarms
- 2.7. Single particles in shear flow and extensional flow
- 2.8. Summary and perspective
- Nomenclature
Chapter 3: Multiphase stirred reactors
- Abstract
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Mathematical models and numerical methods
- 3.3. Two-phase flow in stirred tanks
- 3.4. Three-phase flow in stirred tanks
- 3.5. Summary and perspective
- Nomenclature
Chapter 4: Airlift loop reactors
- Abstract
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Flow regime identification
- 4.3. Mathematical models and numerical methods
- 4.4. Hydrodynamics and transport in airlift loop reactors
- 4.5. Macromixing and micromixing
- 4.6. Guidelines for design and scale-up of airlift loop reactors
- 4.7. Summary and perspective
- Nomenclature
Chapter 5: Preliminary investigation of two-phase microreactors
- Abstract
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Mathematical models and numerical methods
- 5.3. Simulation using lattice Boltzmann method
- 5.4. Experimental
- 5.5. Summary and perspective
- Nomenclature
Chapter 6: Crystallizers: CFD–PBE modeling
- Abstract
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Mathematical models and numerical methods
- 6.3. Crystallizer modeling procedures
- 6.4. Macromixing and micromixing
- 6.5. Summary and perspective
- Nomenclature
Product details
- No. of pages: 320
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2014
- Published: June 13, 2014
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780080999197
- eBook ISBN: 9780124115798
About the Authors
Chao Yang
Affiliations and Expertise
Zai-Sha Mao
Affiliations and Expertise
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