Computational fluid dynamics of an electrolytic cell FM01-LC Conference Paper

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abstract

• Due to the complexity of an Electrochemical Reactor, the knowledge of the kinetics, thermodynamics, process engineering and fluid hydrodynamics is needed to achieve an optimum operation. The availability of electrolytic reactor FM01-LC has been studied lately with great interest. The fluid mechanics of the electrolyte in this type of reactors is essential to be studied because its effect modifies the mass transport to the electrodes. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a novel tool to compute and understand the fluid mechanics in great detail, the software FLUENT TM 6.3.26 was used to solve the governing equations. The velocity profiles and flow paths were predicted using the k-ε model for turbulence closure and compared with experimental results. k-ε model has shown to be an adequate model to describe the flow in parallel plate reactors FM01-LC type. ©The Electrochemical Society.

authors

• Delgadillo Gómez José Ángel
• Enciso-Perez R.
• Rodríguez Torres Israel
• Velasco-Martínez G.

publication date

• 2009-01-01

published in

• ECS Transactions  Proceedings

Research

keywords

• Adequate models; Electrochemical reactor; Electrolytic reactor; Flow path; FM01-LC; Governing equations; Optimum operations; Parallel plate reactors; Software FLUENT; Turbulence closures; Velocity profiles; Computational fluid dynamics; Contacts (fluid mechanics); Dynamics; Electric reactors; Electrolysis; Electrolytic cells; Fluid mechanics; Fluids; Parallel flow; Thermodynamics; Transport properties

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1149/1.3268377

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start page

• 103

end page

• 111

volume

• 20

issue

• 1