Unsaturated flow phenomena in porous medium as in a trickling filter

Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-34

  Ileri, Recep ^a   Muslu, Yilmaz ^a  

^a SAKARYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Biological treatment; Dispersion; Kinetics; Mass transfer; Mathematical model; Trickling filter; Unsaturated media

Indexed keywords

DROP BREAKUP; DROP FORMATION; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); FLOW MEASUREMENT; MASS TRANSFER; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SPHERES; SUBSTRATES;

BIOLOGICAL FILTER; LIQUID JETS; TAP WATER; TRICKLING FILTER;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

TAP WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOFILTER; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; TRICKLING FILTER;

FILTERS-TRICKLING; FLOW MEASUREMENT; POROUS MEDIA;

EID: 0030131417     PISSN: 02682575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4660(199605)66:1<25::AID-JCTB459>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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