Recent advances in CFD modeling of bioethanol production processes

N Novia, H Hasanudin, H Hermansyah… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bioethanol is the alternative to fossil fuels for the transport sector's environmental
sustainability. Scientific journals have disclosed a few works on modeling and enhancing …

Methodologies for predicting the mass transfer performance of structured packings with computational fluid dynamics: a review

LH Macfarlan, MT Phan, RB Eldridge - Chemical Engineering and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This review summarizes the various methods implemented with computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) to predict mass transfer in structured packings. Interfacial mass transfer …

A multi-scale and multi-objective optimization strategy for catalytic distillation process

Q Wang, Z Yang, J Wang, Z Huang, C Yang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
This work aims to establishing a multi-scale and multi-objective optimization strategy for the
catalytic distillation process. Firstly, the catalyst layer efficiency factor correlation that …

Employing computational fluid dynamics technique for analyzing the PACK-1300XY with methanol and isopropanol mixture

Y Cao, HA Dhahad, A Khandakar, MEH Chowdury… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
In this study, an innovative wire gauze structured packing, namely PACK-1300XY with a
specific surface area of 1300 m2/m3 has been characterized by performing computational …

Upscaling of mass and heat transport applied to reactive packing catalytic porous media

OA Luévano-Rivas, JJ Quiroz-Ramirez… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
In various intensified processes, the presence of reactive catalytic packing is essential.
These can be visualized as multiscale systems where a diverse mass, energy transfer, and …

CFD simulation and experimental validation of tortuosity effects on pellet-fluid heat transfer of regularly stacked multi-lobe particles

M Zare, SH Hashemabadi - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper investigated the steady-state heat transfer of multi-lobe particles in a packed bed
both numerically and experimentally. In the numerical analysis, continuity, motion, and …

Evolutional computational fluid dynamics analyses of reactive distillation columns for methyl acetate production process

G Bangga, FJ Novita, HY Lee - Chemical Engineering and Processing …, 2019 - Elsevier
The hydrodynamics of non-reactive and reactive distillation sieve tray columns are analyzed
in this study. The first mentioned task was performed in order to verify the accuracy of …

A multi-scale approach to optimize vapor-liquid mass transfer layer in structured catalytic packing

Q Wang, X Liu, X Wu, C Yang, T Qiu - Chemical Engineering Science, 2020 - Elsevier
In order to implement the multi-scale model to optimize the structure of vapor-liquid mass
transfer layer, vapor and liquid mass transfer coefficients that embrace the effects of structure …

Computational Fluid Dynamics Characterization of High‐Capacity Structured Packing

TD Manh, ND Nam, H Babazadeh… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The novel wire gauze structured packing, PACK‐860, was characterized by means of
numerical methods. The main features of PACK‐860 such as height equivalent to a …

Numerical simulation of binary component separation with perforated-on sheets of the structured packing

SA Abdollahi, M Mahmoudi, A Karimi… - … Journal of Modern …, 2023 - World Scientific
In this research work, we proposed a modern structured packing (SP) with perforated sheets
with a specific surface area of 860 m 2/m 3, which was determined using numerical …