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Review on Hydrodynamic Behavior of Continuous Flow Reactors for Water Treatment by Electron Beam

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Water pollution is one of the most significant environmental issues in China and the world. Electron beam (EB) treatment of water, which is a new technology for water treatment, provides a new way to remove the pollutants that can’t be degraded by traditional water treatment technology. For the past few decades, the biological and chemical effect of electron beam (EB) on wastewater has been studied a lot. Comparatively less attention has been paid on the hydrodynamic behavior of the flow reactors for water treatment by electron beam (EB reactors). The hydrodynamic behavior of EB reactor is crucially important for EB treatment efficiency. In this paper, EB reactors were analyzed and compared, the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of EB reactors were briefly reviewed. Previous studies on EB reactors mainly focus on the experimental study on velocity, depth and mean absorbed dose of the flow formed by EB reactors, ignoring the detailed hydrodynamics of the EB reactor and its effect on the absorbed dose distribution . Further research area on EB reactors was proposed. Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) method should be used to study the velocity, depth and density distribution of the flow formed by EB reactors. The Monte Carlo method , integrated with the CFD simulation result, should be used to study the absorbed dose distribution of EB reactors and therefore optimize the EB reactors to make the absorbed dose evenly distributed.

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This study is financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2016YFC0401500), 7th sub-topic (No. 2016YFC0401507).

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  1. Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, 210029, Nanjing, China

    Rui Ding, Chen Xie & Ziwu Fan

  2. Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China

    Zeyu Mao

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Ding, R., Xie, C., Fan, Z., Mao, Z. (2019). Review on Hydrodynamic Behavior of Continuous Flow Reactors for Water Treatment by Electron Beam. In: Sun, R., Fei, L. (eds) Sustainable Development of Water and Environment. ICSDWE 2019. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16729-5_9

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