Research Article
Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Multiphase Flow in Structured Packings
Table 2
Geometrical characteristics for the simulated structured packing.
| Packing type | Sulzer BX | Gempak 2A |
| Specific surface area (m2/m3) | 500 | 223 | Height of element (m) | 0.185 | 0.2477 | Void fraction (%) | 90 | 95 | θ (deg) | 55 | 45 | (m−1) | — | 223 |
| Channel dimensions (m) | | |
| Height of triangle (h) | 0.006 | 0.0122 | Base of triangle (b) | 0.012 | 0.0267 | Corrugation spacing (s) | 0.009 | 0.018 |
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