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CFD Modelling of Biomass Mixing in Anaerobic Digesters of Biogas Plants

Environmental and Climate Technologies
Volume 23 (2019): Issue 3 (December 2019)
By: Fosca Conti,  Abdessamad Saidi and  Markus Goldbrunner  
Open Access
|Dec 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2019-0079 | Journal eISSN: 2255-8837 | Journal ISSN: 1691-5208
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Language: English
Page range: 57 - 69
Published on: Dec 13, 2019
Published by: Riga Technical University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
Anaerobic digester,
biomass,
cellulose,
computational fluid dynamics (CFD),
full scale biogas digester,
laboratory digester,
mixing,
rheology,
viscosity
Related subjects:
Life sciences,
Life sciences, other

© 2019 Fosca Conti, Abdessamad Saidi, Markus Goldbrunner, published by Riga Technical University
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