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The present study is concerned with an area of process engineering which has been identified as a priority area with respect to energy saving, namely the adsorption/regeneration cycles in packed - bed reactors. The objective of this work is to incorporate recognized fundamental description of adsorption into flow patterns measured and predicted by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques; the latter predictions being obtained by solving the full two-dimensional Navier - Stokes equations, energy and species conservation equations, for a fixed bed adsorber in steady-state and transient modes.
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Gouvalias, G., Markatos, N.C., Panagopoulos, J., Tierney, M.J., Huberson, S., Zhong, G. (1993). Advanced Flow Modelling for Industrial Applications — CFD Models of Adsorbers. In: Pilavachi, P.A. (eds) Energy Efficiency in Process Technology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1454-7_34
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