The concept of spray-type packed bed thermal energy storage (medium and high
temperature thermal energy storage, from 200° C to 350° C, Alumina pellets+ T66 fluid) has …

Cylindrical particles are widely employed in chemical engineering when a high surface area
is necessary for process intensification. However, reliable information about the orientation …

Biological methanation of renewable H 2 and CO 2 has been projected to have
considerable potential in future energy systems by coupling power and gas energy …

Ammonia escape is one of the main barriers to CO 2 capture by aqueous ammonia solution,
so it is of benefit to the practical CO 2 capture engineering to clarify the effects of running …

This study presents the numerical and experimental investigations of air/water direct contact
heat and mass transfer in the humidifier. The mathematical model of humidifier is developed …

The packed bed may be viewed as consisting of two distinct fields, ie, one existing on the
macroscale and the other existing on the microscale levels. The macroscale describes …

Computational domain discretization is the pre-processing stage in CFD analysis and it
highly contributes to reducing the level of solution error as well as increasing the numerical …

Coal hydrogasification processes including wire-mesh grid reactor, batch reactor, curie-point
pyrolyzer, fixed bed reactor and so on were utilized or developed in laboratory researches …

Detailed studies of a random packed bed structure typically require complex and expensive
experimental methods eg computer tomography in various forms (X-ray or gamma-ray). This …

The paper introduces an alternative optical-based methodology allowing to investigate a
liquid spreading process inside packed beds. In particular it allows determining the …