Rotating packed bed (RPB), a novel apparatus involving process intensification (PI), has been successfully used in the chemical industry in recent decades. In this paper, we establish a connection between process integration and process intensification for which we propose a superstructure involving a RPB and a packed bed (PB) in order to determine the optimal integrated design. We describe mod...

Downward propagation of a combustion front in a packed bed of wood particles, with air supply from below, is examined theoretically and experimentally. Using a single-step reaction, with a kinetic model of char oxidation as the dominant mechanism, and assuming local thermal equilibrium, but allowing a local chemical nonequilibrium between the solid and gas phases, the front speed u F, the adiab...

In this study rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) fillets were vacuum packed, frozen and stored at -18°C and  the effect of this packaging method on proximate composition, fatty acids and amino acid profile and their changes compared to control conditions during 9 months of storage were studied. The results showed that 18 fatty acids were identified. The unsaturated fatty acid (UFA) were 56.77 ...

Compressed-air energy storage is an attractive option for satisfying the increasing demands of electricity grids with high shares renewable generation. It a proven technology that can store multiple gigawatt hours hours, days and even weeks at competitive cost efficiency. However, compressed–air plants need to be designed carefully deliver these benefits. In this work, consistent thermo-economi...

We describe a new extension to ScaLAPACK [2] for computing with symmetric (Hermi-tian) matrices stored in a packed form. The new code is built upon the ScaLAPACK routines for full dense storage for a high degree of software reuse. The original ScaLAPACK stores a symmetric matrix as a full matrix but accesses only the lower or upper triangular part. The new code enables more efficient use of mem...

Thiobacillus ferrooxidans was used in fixed-film bioreactors to oxidize ferrous sulfate to ferric sulfate. Glass beads, ion-exchange resin, and activated-carbon particles were tested as support matrix materials. Activated carbon was tested in both a packed-bed bioreactor and a fluidized-bed bioreactor; the other matrix materials were used in packed-bed reactors. Activated carbon displayed the m...

This study focuses on modelling and simulation of horizontal moving bed/grate wood chip combustor. A standalone finite volume based 2-D steady state Euler-Euler Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model was developed for packed bed combustion. Packed bed combustion of a medium scale biomass combustor, which was retrofitted from wood log to wood chip feeding for Tea drying in Sri Lanka, was evalu...

We describe a new extension to ScaLAPACK [2] for computing with symmetric (Hermi-tian) matrices stored in a packed form. The new code is built upon the ScaLAPACK routines for full dense storage for a high degree of software reuse. The original ScaLAPACK stores a symmetric matrix as a full matrix but accesses only the lower or upper triangular part. The new code enables more efficient use of mem...