High-frequency water vapor sorption cycling using fluidization of metal-organic frameworks

A Terzis, A Ramachandran, K Wang, M Asheghi… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2020 - cell.com
The productivity of continuously cycled atmospheric water harvesting methods using metal-
organic frameworks (MOFs) has been limited by a lack of scalable designs and robust MOF …

Comprehensive multivariate sensitivity analysis of CFD-DEM simulations: Critical model parameters and their impact on fluidization hydrodynamics

A Bakshi, M Shahnam, A Gel, T Li, C Altantzis… - Powder Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
The development of CFD-DEM is critical for investigating particle phenomena and their
coupling with reactor transport. However, there continues to be considerable uncertainty in …

Gas flow distribution and solid dynamics in a thin rectangular pressurized fluidized bed using CFD-DEM simulation

D Liu, J Song, J Ma, X Chen, B van Wachem - Powder Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Operating a fluidized bed at elevated pressure is typically used to intensify processes. The
effects of pressure on bubble behavior have been extensively studied; however, the gas flow …

On the limitations of 2D CFD for thin-rectangular fluidized bed simulations

A Bakshi, C Altantzis, A Bershanska, AK Stark… - Powder Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Thin rectangular fluidized beds enable detailed optical diagnostics providing high quality
data for validating numerical simulations. Because of their lower computational costs, 2D …

Modelling DME production from synthetic gases with a fluidized bed reactor: A CFD approach

C Koyunoğlu, H Karaca, HS Soyhan - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Dimethyl ether (DME) is one of the most sought-after automotive fuels. Catalyst is generally
preferred in direct dime production from synthesis gas. 0In our study, Computational Fluid …

Identification of mesoscale flow in a bubbling and turbulent gas–solid fluidized bed

L Niu, Y Huang, Z Chu, M Cai, M Liu - Industrial & Engineering …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Based on the moment consistency principle, the bubble threshold was determined by using
the traversing method. A novel approach was proposed to identify bubbles and …

Mixing dynamics in bubbling fluidized beds

A Bakshi, AF Ghoniem, C Altantzis - AIChE Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Solids mixing affects thermal and concentration gradients in fluidized bed reactors and is,
therefore, critical to their performance. Despite substantial effort over the past decades …

Quantification of solid mixing in bubbling fluidized beds via two-fluid model simulations

MS Salehi, M Askarishahi, S Radl - Industrial & Engineering …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The influence of particle density and fluidization velocity on the mixing behavior of Geldart B
particles was investigated in bubbling fluidized beds for various operating conditions using a …

On the two-phase theory of fluidization for Geldart B and D particles

Z Fu, J Zhu, S Barghi, Y Zhao, Z Luo, C Duan - Powder Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of the division of gas flow between the bubble and dense phases is
important for modelling and operation of bubbling fluidized beds. The two-phase theory of …

Manufactured chemistry: rethinking unit operation design in the age of additive manufacturing

AK Stark - AIChE Journal, 2018 - osti.gov
Advanced manufacturing enables new approaches to chemical reactor design due to the
ability to build complex geometries and topologies unaccessible to traditional manufacturing …