Drop coalescence in technical liquid/liquid applications: A review on experimental techniques and modeling approaches

J Kamp, J Villwock, M Kraume - Reviews in Chemical Engineering, 2017 - degruyter.com
The coalescence phenomenon of drops in liquid/liquid systems is reviewed with particular
focus on its technical relevance and application. Due to the complexity of coalescence, a …

Population balance modelling to describe the particle aggregation process: A review

RI Jeldres, PD Fawell, BJ Florio - Powder technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Unit operations used to achieve solid-liquid separation for fine particle suspensions rely
upon efficient aggregate formation. There is considerable potential for predictions from …

Enhancing gravity thickener feedwell design and operation for optimal flocculation through the application of computational fluid dynamics

PD Fawell, TV Nguyen, CB Solnordal… - Mineral Processing …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
As the expectations for more consistent and higher density thickened and paste tailings in
the minerals industry increase, so do the demands on flocculation performance within …

An extended quadrature-based moment method with log-normal kernel density functions

E Madadi-Kandjani, A Passalacqua - Chemical Engineering Science, 2015 - Elsevier
An extended quadrature method of moments (EQMOM) with log-normal kernel density
functions is developed in this work, and applied to the solution of a population balance …

CFD modeling of the mixing of water in oil emulsions

SF Roudsari, G Turcotte, R Dhib… - Computers & chemical …, 2012 - Elsevier
A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was developed for the mixing of water in oil
emulsion in a lab-scale mixing tank equipped with a Rushton turbine impeller. Multiple …

Computational fluid dynamics modeling of gas-solid fluidized bed reactor: Influence of numerical and operating parameters

V Akbari, TNG Borhani, A Shamiri… - Experimental and …, 2024 - Springer
In this paper, the most influential parameters (numerical and operating parameters) affecting
the performance of fluidized bed reactors are studied. The investigated parameters are …

Lattice Boltzmann method for population balance equations with simultaneous growth, nucleation, aggregation and breakage

A Majumder, V Kariwala, S Ansumali… - Chemical Engineering …, 2012 - Elsevier
Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is developed for solution of one-dimensional population
balance equations (PBEs) with simultaneous growth, nucleation, aggregation and breakage …

2D CFD-PBM simulation of hydrodynamic and particle growth in an industrial gas phase fluidized bed polymerization reactor

V Akbari, TNG Borhani, A Shamiri, R Aramesh… - … Research and Design, 2015 - Elsevier
In an industrial fluidized bed polymerization reactor, particle size distribution (PSD) plays a
significant role in the reactor efficiency evaluation. The computational fluid dynamic (CFD) …

Model-based analysis of the impact of the distributor on the hydrodynamic performance of industrial polydisperse gas phase fluidized bed polymerization reactors

V Akbari, TNG Borhani, HR Godini, MKA Hamid - Powder technology, 2014 - Elsevier
A two dimensionally Eulerian–Eulerian multiphase flow model coupled with a population
balance modeling (CFD–PBM) simulation was implemented to investigate the fluidization …

A moment projection method for population balance dynamics with a shrinkage term

S Wu, EKY Yapp, J Akroyd, S Mosbach, R Xu… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
A new method of moments for solving the population balance equation is developed and
presented. The moment projection method (MPM) is numerically simple and easy to …