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discretization of the
reactor in differential
height elements
fixed input parameters:
geometry,
reaction scheme
used correlations
start time = 0s
operation conditions at
calculated timepoint
Inflows
retrieving state inside the
reactor
conversion level, bed
mass
calculation of fluid
mechanics for height
intervals
solids concentration,
bubble size, dense bed
height, elutriation
calculation of chemical
reactions
gas and solids
conversion
iterate gas flows
and velocity
calculation of outflows
new reactor bed mass,
PSD and conversion
distribution
next time step
end of simulation at t end
Fig. 6 Calculation procedure for the fluidized bed reactor module (Reprinted with permission
from [8])