Abstract
The advances in both experimental characterization as well as computational modeling over the last couple of decades have provided process engineers unprecedented opportunities to understand and optimize multiphase flows in process industries. The chemical and process industry faces its biggest challenges in rising raw material costs, depleting feedstocks, and stricter environmental regulations. For multiphase flow processes, several operating flow regimes may exist due to relative motion of the phases to each other. Key aspects of process industry, role of multiphase flows in process industry, and overall organization of this book are briefly discussed in this chapter. The book is aimed at providing state of the art in commonly encountered multiphase flows in process industries. It covers fundamentals of multiphase flows including widely used experimental and computational methods for understanding multiphase flows. The book is also devoted to several examples from process industry covering a wide range of multiphase flows.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Multiphase Flows for Process Industries |
| Subtitle of host publication | Fundamentals and Applications: Volume 1 |
| Publisher | wiley |
| Pages | 3-21 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783527812066 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783527351558 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2022 |
Keywords
- computational modeling
- environmental regulations
- experimental characterization
- multiphase flows
- process industries