Residence time distribution of liquid flow in a trickle bed evaluated using FFT deconvolution with coordinated smoothing

Chemical Engineering Communications

Volumn 169, Issue , 1998, Pages 223-244

  Mao, Zai Sha ^a   Xiong, Tianying ^a,b   Chen, Jiayong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Discrete Fast Fourier Transform; Noise filtering; Residence time distribution; Trickle bed

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000537205     PISSN: 00986445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00986449808912730     Document Type: Article

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