Advances in Multi-Scale Methods in Fluid Mechanics for Bubble Columns and Fluidized Beds
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2023) | Viewed by 1148
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mass transfer; hydrodynamics; mixing; turbulence; nonlinear chaos theory; information entropy theory
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: multiphase reactor engineering; gas-liquid transport phenomena; CO2 and bio-oil upgrading (hydrogenation, thermal cracking); gas-liquid-solid fluidized beds (ebullated beds, slurry bubble columns); particle agglomeration phenomena; reactor fouling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The multiphase reactors are the most important units in the chemical, biochemical, and petrochemical industries. Numerous research groups in different parts of the world are dealing with multiphase reactors. Especially in the field of bubble column reactors, there are over 500 papers in the open literature about different aspects of hydrodynamics, mixing, and mass and heat transfer. These facilities are simple but very effective gas–liquid contactors. They are characterized with a complicated hydrodynamics, which implies the formation of various flow regimes. This issue has rendered the successful design and scale-up of bubble columns a very difficult multi-parameter task.
Since the analogous description of the hydrodynamics of both bubble columns and fluidized beds is feasible, these multiphase reactors should be simultaneously investigated and their performance compared, with some analogies extracted. In both reactor types, advanced measurement techniques and new approaches for CFD simulations are frequently applied.
In this Special Issue, manuscripts are solicited that focus on the advances on multi-scale methods in fluid mechanics of both reactor types. Especially welcome are articles that focus on the various modifications of both bubble columns (including slurry bubble columns) and fluidized beds.
Prof. Dr. Stoyan Nedeltchev
Dr. Dominic Pjontek
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bubble columns
- fluidized beds
- hydrodynamic analogies
- advanced measurement techniques
- CFD simulations
- mixing
- mass and heat transfer
