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/m^3
Solution viscosity,	0.008904 poise
TOCin	4.46 mol/m^3 and 2.55 mol/m^3
H2O2in	27 mol/m^3–16 mol/m^3
Diffusion coefficient	1 × 10^−6 m^2/sec
Diffusion coefficient	1 × 10^−6 m^2/sec
Fe^3+ in reactor	1.54 and 0.88 gm/L
Fe^2+ 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 m^2