Research Article
Simulation for Supporting Scale-Up of a Fluidized Bed Reactor for Advanced Water Oxidation
Table 1
Reactor description and applied conditions for CFD simulation.
| Parameter | Specification |
| Operating temperature | 298 K | Operating time | 3600 sec | Solution density, | 1000 kg/m3 | Solution viscosity, | 0.008904 poise | TOCin | 4.46 mol/m3 and 2.55 mol/m3 | H2O2in | 27 mol/m3–16 mol/m3 | Diffusion coefficient | 1 × 10−6 m2/sec | Diffusion coefficient | 1 × 10−6 m2/sec | Fe3+ in reactor | 1.54 and 0.88 gm/L | Fe2+ in solution | 14 and 8 mg/L | Amount of glass beads | 30 gm/L | Reactor-dia. | 7 cm | Reactor-height | 70 cm | Reactor-volume | 2 Liter | Operating flow rate | 0.03 m/sec | Bed voidage, | 0.586 (unit less) | Permeability, | 5.9 m2 |
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