Multiphase flow in PEM water electrolyzers: a mini-review

X Guan, J Bai, J Zhang, N Yang - Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
In comparison to alternative water electrolysis technologies, polymer electrolyte membrane
water electrolysis (PEMWE) has several advantages, such as high-voltage efficiency, pure …

Forces governing the dynamics of liquid spreading in packed beds

AS Ambekar, U Rüde, VV Buwa - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Forces governing the dynamics of liquid spreading in packed beds Page 1 J. Fluid Mech. (2022),
vol. 948, A13, doi:10.1017/jfm.2022.665 Forces governing the dynamics of liquid spreading in …

Eulerian multi-fluid simulations of local liquid distribution in a bed packed with cylindrical particles

RS Gulia, D Saxena, F Augier, Y Haroun… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Packed bed reactors (PBRs) are extensively used in chemical process industries to perform
solid-catalyzed gas–liquid reactions. Their performance is significantly influenced by liquid …

Particle-resolved simulations of local liquid spreading in packed beds: Effect of wettability at varying particle size

AS Ambekar, U Rüde, VV Buwa - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Packed beds are widely used to perform solid-catalyzed gas–liquid reactions, eg,
hydrodesulfurization, oxidation, and hydrogenation. The overall performance of packed …

Effect of Particle Aspect Ratio and Shape on the Particle-Scale Dynamics of Gas–Liquid Flow through Packed Beds

AS Ambekar, K Singh, A Kumari… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Packed beds are widely used to perform solid-catalyzed gas–liquid reactions and gas
cleanup processes. In the present work, we simulated gas–liquid flow through realistic 3D …

Eulerian simulations of local liquid distribution in a Trickle Bed: Effects of flow rates and liquid properties

RS Gulia, D Saxena, Y Haroun, F Augier… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
We performed Eulerian simulations of gas–liquid flow in a Trickle Bed Reactor (TBR) to
understand contributions of gas–liquid, gas–solid and liquid–solid interaction forces (F→ …

Computational investigation of liquid holdup and wetting efficiency inside trickle bed reactors with different catalyst particle shapes

H Deng, B Guo, H Dong, C Liu, Z Geng - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Liquid holdup and wetting efficiency are essential parameters for design of trickle bed
reactors. Both parameters play an important role in reactor performance including pressure …

A closed-loop optimized system with CFD data for liquid maldistribution model

W Zhang, L Li, B Zhang, X Xu, J Zhai, J Wang - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
For the simulation of a trickle-bed reactor (TBR) in coal and oil refining, modeling the liquid
maldistribution of the gas-liquid distributor incurs enormous pre-processing work and bears …

Effect of column inclination and oscillation on liquid spreading in a trickle bed

MT Shah, RP Utikar, VK Pareek - Chemical Engineering Research and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Gas–liquid–solid flow in a trickle bed installed on a floating production unit is affected by
oscillations imparted by sea waves. The oscillations may affect the spreading of liquid, and …

[PDF][PDF] Unravelling Wetting Phenomena in Trickle Bed Reactors: A Direct Numerical Simulation Approach

A Tavanaei - 2024 - research.tue.nl
Trickle bed reactors play a crucial role in the chemical process industries due to their
efficient gas-liquid-solid interactions. The performance of these reactors is largely influenced …