Nonlinear adsorption and hydrodynamic dispersion in self-similar networks

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1501-1510

  Russell, Bradley P ^a,b   Le Van, M Douglas ^a,c  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UOP LLC   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dispersion; Fixed bed adsorption

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; DISPERSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL;

ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS;

LANGMUIR ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 0030615990     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(96)00478-2     Document Type: Article

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