Multiple Hydrodynamic States in Cocurrent Two-Phase Downflow through Packed Beds

1978 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kin-Mun Kan ◽  
Paul F. Greenfield
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AIChE Journal ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. G. Rao ◽  
M. S. Ananth ◽  
Y. B. G. Varma
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2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (4) ◽  
pp. 693-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Buonanno ◽  
A. Carotenuto ◽  
G. Giovinco ◽  
N. Massarotti

The upper and lower bounds of the effective thermal conductivity of packed beds of rough spheres are evaluated using the theoretical approach of the elementary cell for two-phase systems. The solid mechanics and thermal problems are solved and the effects of roughness and packed bed structures are also examined. The numerical solution of the thermal conduction problem through the periodic regular arrangement of steel spheroids in air is determined using the Finite Element Method. The numerical results are compared with those obtained from an experimental apparatus designed and built for this purpose.


1991 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koichiro SHIBATA ◽  
Masakata SHIMIZU ◽  
Sin-ichi INABA ◽  
Reijiro TAKAHASHI ◽  
Jun-ichiro YAGI

Author(s):  
Ion Iliuta ◽  
Faical Larachi

Packed bed columns are intensively used as multiphase contactors and reactors in chemical, biochemical, and petrochemical industries. Due to two-phase through the packed beds, the performance of multiphase contactors depends on the complex interaction of the interphase mass transfer, thermodynamics and hydrodynamics. Under reaction conditions, the intraparticle mass transfer and reaction kinetics have additional considerable impact on the reactor performance. The inherent complexity of multiphase systems leaves many issues unresolved and leads to many inconsistencies and questionable approximations, especially in the modelling of multiphase flow. Multiphase flow modelling in packed beds is a complicated task because of the difficulty incorporating the complex geometry into the flow equations, and the difficulty in accounting for the gas-liquid interactions in the presence of complex fluid-particle (e.g., partial wetting) contacting. This review focuses on recent advances made in the modelling of the hydrodynamics of two-phase downflow and counter-current flow in packed beds via two-fluid models coupled with slit and double slit phenomenological approximations relating the mutual three phase hydrodynamic interactions.


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