Understanding the influence of media geometry on the degradation of acrylonitrile: Experimental and CFD analysis

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Theoretical Hydrodynamic Modeling of the Fluidized Bed Photoreactor (FBP) Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD): Fluidization Conditions for TiO2-CuO Immobilized on Beach Sand Granules

“…Commercial computational fluid dynamic (CFD) packages, such as COMSOL Multiphysics and ANSYS Fluent, have been successfully used in the simulation of advanced photochemical and nonphotochemical oxidation processes, specifically for the modeling of hydrodynamic [1][2][3][4][5][6], radiative [7][8][9][10][11], mass transfer [12][13][14], and kinetic [4,[15][16][17][18] phenomena, establishing the optimal values of typical dimensionless numbers, such as Reynolds (Re), Hatta (Ha), Schmidt (Sc), and Sherwood (Sh), among others, being helpful for the scaling process of this technology. According to the bibliometric study (2010-2023) carried out in this work using the Scopus database (http://www.scopus.com/), Figure 1(a) shows a growing interest of the international scientific community in topics related to the modeling and mathematical simulation of photoreactors used in advanced oxidation processes (AOPs).…”