Since polypropylene was synthesized in 1954, tremendous breakthroughs have been
achieved in transferring polypropylene from a discovery in the laboratory to an …

This first-of-its-kind review discusses the hydrodynamics for polyolefin productions in slurry
reactors using CFD. Past reviews in this field are specifically focused on the CFD …

Solid–liquid suspensions are commonly encountered in industrial production processes.
The dynamics of the solid–liquid suspension behaviors depends on both liquid–particle and …

Integrating different influencing aspects in Ziegler-Natta catalyzed gas-phase polymerization
industrial fluidized bed reactors (FBRs) is challenging and requires new modeling …

A computational fluid dynamics model, coupled with population balance model (CFD–PBM),
was developed to describe the liquid–solid two-phase flow in a pilot-plant tubular loop …

Abstract An Eulerian-Eulerian two-fluid model was employed to reveal the hydrodynamics
behaviors of solid–liquid flow and particle suspension performance in continuous oscillatory …

High-shear-induced exfoliation of graphite into graphene using a rotor–stator mixer in
supercritical CO2 is a promising approach to massively produce high-quality graphene. The …

Abstract An Eulerian-Eulerian two-fluid model which incorporates the kinetic theory of
granular flow, the energy balance equations, was firstly applied to investigate the heat …

It is of significance to numerically describe particle-flow interphase flow details at a feasible
computational cost. Inspired by the semi-resolved Computational Fluid Dynamics-Discrete …

An Eulerian–Eulerian two-fluid coupling the population balance model (PBM) is developed
to describe the gas–solid two-phase flow in a multizone circulating polymerization reactor …