{"title":"Flow Simulation in a 2D Bubble Column with the Euler-lagrange and Euler-euler Method","authors":"A. Weber, H. Bart","doi":"10.2174/1874123101812010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874123101812010001","url":null,"abstract":"Bubbly flows, as present in bubble column reactors, can be simulated using a variety of simulation techniques. In order to gain high resolution CFD methods are used to simulate a pseudo 2D bubble column using EL and EE techniques. The forces on bubble dynamics are solved within open access software OpenFOAM with bubble interactions computed via Monte Carlo methods. The estimated bubble size distribution and the predicted hold-up are compared to experimental data and other simulative work using EE approach and show reasonable consensus for both. Benchmarks with state of the art EE simulations shows that the EL approach is advantageous if the bubble number stays at a certain level, as the EL approach scales linearly with the number of bubbles simulated. Therefore, different computational meshes have been used to also account for influence of the resolution quality. The EL approach indicated faster solution for all realistic cases, only deliberate decrease of coalescence rates could push CPU time to the limits. Critical bubble number - when EE becomes advantageous over the EL approach - was estimated to be 40.000 in this particular case.","PeriodicalId":22933,"journal":{"name":"The Open Chemical Engineering Journal","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78546006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Chahbani, D. Tondeur, R. Talmoudi, A. Abdeljaoued
{"title":"Pressure equalization step between a packed bed and an empty tank in Pressure Swing Adsorption cycles","authors":"M. Chahbani, D. Tondeur, R. Talmoudi, A. Abdeljaoued","doi":"10.2174/1874123101711010033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874123101711010033","url":null,"abstract":"RESEARCH ARTICLE Modeling and Simulation of Pressure Equalization Step Between a Packed Bed and an Empty Tank in Pressure Swing Adsorption Cycles Mohamed Hachemi Chahbani, R. Talmoudi, Amna Abdel Jaoued and D. Tondeur Institut Supérieur des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie de Gabès, Université de Gabès, Rue Omar Ibn Elkhattab, Zrig, Tunisia Laboratoire Génie des procédés et systèmes industriels (LR11ES54), Université de Gabès, Rue Omar Ibn Elkhattab, Zrig, Gabès 6029, Tunisia Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Gabès, Université de Gabès, Rue Omar Ibn Elkhattab, Zrig, Gabès 6029, Tunisia Laboratoire Réactions et Génie des Procédés, CNRS et Université de Lorraine, ENSIC, 1 Rue Grandville54000 Nancy France","PeriodicalId":22933,"journal":{"name":"The Open Chemical Engineering Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84192964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retraction Notice: Using Fenton Oxidation Method to Advanced Treatment of LandfillLeachate","authors":"Gao Yanjiao, Huang Runzhu, Song Tiehong","doi":"10.2174/1874123101610010110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874123101610010110","url":null,"abstract":"Hydrogen peroxide and ferrous sulfate were used to advanced treatment of landfill leachate effluent from biochemical tanks. Some influences on removing COD and chroma including the pH value of solution, the dosage of ferrous sulfate, the dosage of hydrogen peroxide and reaction time were investigated. The test results showed that for removal of COD and chroma the optimal pH was 3.0, the best ferrous sulfate and hydrogen peroxide dosage was 1500mg/L, 20mL/L respectively, and the optimal reaction time was 60min. Under optimal conditions, COD and chroma removal rate could reach 79.7% and 95.2% respectively.","PeriodicalId":22933,"journal":{"name":"The Open Chemical Engineering Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"110-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82998747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retraction Notice: Study of Water-rock Interaction with Hydrochemical and Isotopic Datumin Laizhou Bay","authors":"Liu Feng, Ma Fengshan, Guo Jie, Ding-Yuan Kuo","doi":"10.2174/1874123101610010113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874123101610010113","url":null,"abstract":"Water-rock interaction of the groundwater in aquifer system has been analyzed and inferred with hydrochemical and isotopic datum in Laizhou Bay, eastern China. 32 samples of groundwater from three boreholes (96-5#, 96-6#, 1121#), couples of seawater, saline water, fresh water, surface water and rainfall are obtained in study area for hydrochemical and isotopic analyses. The origin of groundwater is generally concluded by stable isotope (δO and δD) and the analytic results of Na, Ca, Mg, Cl, SO4, HCO3 changing with depth, combined with total dissolved solids (TDS), electrical conductivity (EC), can be apparently proofs for serious water-rock interaction. The conclusion reveals that the origin of 96-5#, 112-1# is most likely saline water different from that the groundwater of 96-6# which is possible originated from fresh water, surface water or mixing of both. Compared the ion content of same borehole at different depth and different boreholes with same depth, the optimal area for building main well and mining area is determined eventually is around 96-5#.","PeriodicalId":22933,"journal":{"name":"The Open Chemical Engineering Journal","volume":"39 1","pages":"113-113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87465448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retraction Notice: The Research of the Mineralogical and Element Geochemical Characteristicsof Bauxite in Yunfeng, Qingzhen, in Central Guizhou Province, China","authors":"Yang Wu, Dai Tagen, Long Yongzhen","doi":"10.2174/1874123101610010112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874123101610010112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22933,"journal":{"name":"The Open Chemical Engineering Journal","volume":"32 1","pages":"112-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77271860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intensifying the Fermentation of Aspergillus oryzae in a Stirred Bioreactor Using Maxblend Impeller","authors":"Narges Ghobadi, C. Ogino, N. Ohmura","doi":"10.2174/1874123101610010088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874123101610010088","url":null,"abstract":"RESEARCH ARTICLE Intensifying the Fermentation of Aspergillus oryzae in a Stirred Bioreactor Using Maxblend Impeller Narges Ghobadi, Chiaki Ogino and Naoto Ohmura Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University 1-1 Rokkodaicho, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Rokkodaicho, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan","PeriodicalId":22933,"journal":{"name":"The Open Chemical Engineering Journal","volume":"174 1","pages":"88-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76905165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mass and Heat Transfer at Different Heat Exchange Surfaces and Their Suitability for Use in Thermal Desalination Plants","authors":"T. Schwarzer, H. Bart","doi":"10.2174/1874123101610010074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874123101610010074","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: A new concept for small scale multi-stage distillation (MSD) desalination plants is presented allowing an installation in remote rural areal due to low maintenance, operating and investment costs. It is based on extensive studies on heat and mass transfer using 6 different condensation / heat transfer surfaces or material combinations. Basically all 6 condensation surfaces except glass are of a sheet metal or an expanded metal (to the evaporation side) in combination to an acidand heat-resistant foil (on the salt water side). The basic experiments were performed in a \"lab scale\" unit to determine their thermodynamic and structural characteristics and user-friendliness. After validation in a prototype novel oxidic condensation surfaces (AF) and material combinations are in actual use in the new MSD systems, following the requirements, including a good wetting and condensation behavior and a good heat transfer.","PeriodicalId":22933,"journal":{"name":"The Open Chemical Engineering Journal","volume":"49 1","pages":"74-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89347995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Y. Dwi, J. Julian, J. N. Putro, A. Nugraha, Y. Ju, N. Indraswati, S. Ismadji
{"title":"Solubility of Acetophenone in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide","authors":"Maria Y. Dwi, J. Julian, J. N. Putro, A. Nugraha, Y. Ju, N. Indraswati, S. Ismadji","doi":"10.2174/1874123101610010018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874123101610010018","url":null,"abstract":"The solubility data of acetophenone in supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) were measured using a static method at several temperatures (313.15, 323.15, 333.15, and 343.15K) and pressures ranging from10 MPa to 28 MPa. The density based models (Chrastil and Del valle– Aguilera models) and the Peng-Robinson equation of state (PR-EOS) with quadratic and StryjekVera combining rules were employed to correlate the experimental data. Good correlations between the calculated and experimental solubility data were obtained. The sum of squared errors (SSE) are 0.38 % and 0.37 % for Chrastil and Del Valle – Aguilera models, respectively; and 9.07 % for Peng-Robinson equation of state with quadratic combining rule and 4.00 % for Peng-Robinson equation of state with Stryjek-Vera combining rule.","PeriodicalId":22933,"journal":{"name":"The Open Chemical Engineering Journal","volume":"4170 3 1","pages":"18-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86764301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Merzougui, N. Labed, A. Hasseine, A. Bonilla-Petriciolet, D. Laiadi, O. Bacha
{"title":"Parameter Identification in Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium Modeling of Food-Related Thermodynamic Systems Using Flower Pollination Algorithms","authors":"A. Merzougui, N. Labed, A. Hasseine, A. Bonilla-Petriciolet, D. Laiadi, O. Bacha","doi":"10.2174/1874123101610010059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874123101610010059","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the liquid–liquid equilibrium of twenty two ternary and quaternary systems relevant for food industry was modeled using the NRTL and UNIQUAC equations and the Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA). FPA is an emerging natureinspired stochastic global optimization method and it has been used for LLE parameter identification of local composition models in multicomponent mixtures. FPA and its modified version (MFPA) were assessed for solving LLE parameter estimation problems in several systems relevant for food industry. Thenumerical performance of these stochastic methods has been analyzed at different numerical scenarios with and without the application of closure equations. Results showed that MFPA outperformed FPA and other metaheuristics (e.g., Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithm and Harmony Search) for LLE parameter identification in local compositions models. MFPA with closure equations is a reliable approach for determining the best interaction parameter of NRTL and UNIQUAC models in the LLE data processing of food-related thermodynamic systems.","PeriodicalId":22933,"journal":{"name":"The Open Chemical Engineering Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":"59-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78731538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}