The Liquid Maldistribution Analysis of the Trickle Bed Reactor with the CFD Method

Table 2

Comparison of normalized average values.

Section (flow rate)	3.4 mm			5.3 mm
	CFD (–)	ERT (–)	Error (%)	CFD (–)	ERT (–)	Error (%)
P1 (300 ml/min)	0.25	0.25	0.67	0.24	0.22	11.88
P2 (300 ml/min)	0.26	0.38	30.29	0.24	0.33	29.30
P3 (300 ml/min)	0.24	0.44	45.18	0.24	0.35	31.66
P4 (300 ml/min)	0.23	0.45	48.68	0.23	0.42	44.75
P1 (700 ml/min)	0.58	0.44	24.68	0.65	0.39	40.53
P2 (700 ml/min)	0.59	0.65	9.02	0.63	0.60	5.26
P3 (700 ml/min)	0.56	0.73	22.84	0.60	0.64	5.60
P4 (700 ml/min)	0.54	0.80	32.63	0.49	0.77	35.90
P1 (1100 ml/min)	0.94	0.57	39.57	0.95	0.52	44.76
P2 (1100 ml/min)	1	0.83	17.37	0.99	0.82	17.46
P3 (1100 ml/min)	0.95	0.91	4.45	1	0.86	14.38
P4 (1100 ml/min)	0.86	1	13.99	0.90	1	9.58
Correlation coefficient	0.7686			0.7647