Search results for "trickle-bed reactors"

Modelling wet-air oxidation of phenol in a trickle-bed reactor using active carbon as a catalyst

2016

Influence of the porosity profile and sets of Ergun constants on the main hydrodynamic parameters in the trickle-bed reactors

2014

Abstract The Eulerian multiphase code has been applied for the comparative simulation of the experimental results obtained for varying flow rates of both fluid phases and for systems of various physicochemical properties used in the laboratory trickle-bed reactor (TBR). Therefore six different radial porosity profiles and three sets of the Ergun constants used in the relations defining the interphase momentum exchange have been implemented into the CFD code. The mean relative error of the pressure drop and of the averaged holdup as well as the standard deviation determined with respect to the experiments have been used as the criterion for the validation of the theoretical model. These valu…

Modelling of the hydrodynamics of concurrent gas and liquid flow through packed bed

2016

The aim of the present study is to simulate concurrent gas and liquid flow through packed bed in the gas continuous flow regime (GCF) and continuity shock waves regime (CSW) using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The application of multiple gas-liquid-solid model requires the knowledge of relationships determining interactions between phases. The exchange coefficients of these forces were defined by means of equations suggested by ATTOU et al. (1999). As a result of the computational simulation the following data were obtained: gas pressure drop in the bed, volume fraction distribution of a given phase (liquid and gas holdups) along the packing and its mean value in the reactor. The comp…