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Computational Flow Modeling for Chemical Reactor Engineering

  • 1st Edition, Volume 5 - September 12, 2001
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Vivek V. Ranade
  • Language: English

This book describes how modeling fluid flow in chemical reactors may offer solutions that improve design, operation, and performance of reactors. Chemical reactors are any vessels,… Read more

Description

This book describes how modeling fluid flow in chemical reactors may offer solutions that improve design, operation, and performance of reactors. Chemical reactors are any vessels, tubes, pipes, or tanks in which chemical reactions take place. Computational Flow Modeling for Chemical Reactor Engineering will show the reactor engineer how to define the specific roles of computational flow modeling, select appropriate tools, and apply these tools to link reactor hardware to reactor performance. Overall methodology is illustrated with numerous case studies.

Industry has invested substantial funds in computational flow modeling which will pay off only if it can be used to realize significant performance enhancement in chemical reactors. No other single source exists which provides the information contained in this book.

Readership

Chemical engineers in industry and research laboratories; academic researchers and their students in reactor engineering.

Table of contents

Preface I. Introduction 1. Reactor Engineering and Flow Modeling

II. Computational Flow Modeling 2. Mathematical Modeling of Flow Processes 3. Turbulent Flow Processes 4. Multiphase Flow Processes 5. Reactive Flow Processes 6. Numerical Solution of Model Equations 7. Numerical Solution of Complex Flow Models 8. Computational Tools for Simulating Flow Processes

III. CFM for CRE 9. Flow Modeling for Reactor Engineering

IV. Applications 10. Stirred Reactors 11. Bubble Column Reactors 12. Fluidized Bed Reactors 13. Fixed Bed and Other Types of Reactors

V. Epilogue 14. Epilogue

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 5
  • Published: September 12, 2001
  • Language: English

About the author

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Vivek V. Ranade

Dr Vivek Ranade is a Bernal Chair Professor of Process Engineering at Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Ireland. He leads ‘Multiphase Reactors and Process Intensification’ group. Vivek and his group use experiments, computational flow modelling, population balance models and machine learning to generate new insights in multiphase flows, multiphase reactors, and process intensification. The group is developing novel fluidic devices, intensified processes and ‘factory in a box’ platforms for decentralised manufacturing, personalised products, responsible resource usage, decarbonisation as well as mitigation and valorisation of waste.

Affiliations and expertise
Bernal Chair Professor of Process Engineering at Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Ireland

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