Experimental methods in chemical engineering: Residence time distribution—RTD

A Bérard, B Blais, GS Patience - The Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Reactor performance, solids‐(gas)‐mixing, flow through porous media, distillation
columns, or through granulators improve as the fluid dynamics approach ideal plug flow …

Residence time distribution studies using radiotracers in chemical industry—A review

M Sheoran, A Chandra, H Bhunia… - Chemical …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Use of radiotracer in residence time distribution (RTD) studies in industrial as well as lab
scale systems has been emphasized in this review. The advantages of radiotracer over …

Elucidation of the reaction mechanism of indirect oxidative carbonylation of methanol to dimethyl carbonate on Pd/NaY catalyst: Direct identification of reaction …

C Wang, B Liu, P Liu, K Huang, N Xu, H Guo, P Bai… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Gas-phase indirect oxidative carbonylation of methanol to dimethyl carbonate (DMC) has
been industrialized, but the reaction mechanism is still ambiguous. In this work, the reaction …

Performance comparison between novel and commercial static mixers under turbulent conditions

R Chakleh, F Azizi - Chemical Engineering and Processing-Process …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study compares the hydrodynamics and mixing performance of four different static
mixers under turbulent flow conditions. The Sulzer SMV™, NOV Kenics™, and two novel …

CFD modeling of immiscible liquids turbulent dispersion in Kenics static mixers: Focusing on droplet behavior

MM Haddadi, SH Hosseini, D Rashtchian… - Chinese Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The present study is concerned with the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation of
turbulent dispersion of immiscible liquids, namely, water–silicone oil and water–benzene …

Novel packed bed reactor designed for Prileschajew epoxidation of fatty acid methyl ester: Intensification of mass/heat transfer

J Cai, Z Wu, N Gao, H Xu, D Wang, F Zhou… - … and Processing-Process …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, a packed bed reactor with orifice plates (PBR@ OP) was designed and applied
to Prileschajew epoxidation. The reactor performance such as mass/heat transfer and …

On the pressure drop of fluids through woven screen meshes

F Azizi - Chemical engineering science, 2019 - Elsevier
Quantifying pressure drop for fluids passing through woven screen meshes has been the
subject of numerous investigations. All of them rely on one of two major theories that explain …

Intensifying the Absorption of CO2 in Water Using a Static Mixer; Part II: Effect of Reactor Design

G Altabash, M Al-Hindi, F Azizi - Industrial & Engineering …, 2023 - ACS Publications
An attempt to intensify the physical absorption of CO2 in water was undertaken in this work
by means of using a tubular reactor equipped with screen-type static mixers. Four different …

Chemical absorption of CO2 in alkaline solutions using an intensified reactor

F Azizi, L Kaady, M Al‐Hindi - The Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from point sources is critical for a sustainable
chemical industry. Several techniques have already been developed and the race is …

Mass transfer in an energy-efficient high-intensity gas–liquid contactor

F Azizi, AM Al Taweel - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2015 - ACS Publications
To improve the selectivity and yield of multiphase reactions, an attempt to intensify gas–
liquid mass-transfer operations was undertaken in which screen/grid static mixers were used …