Investigation of the two-phase flow in trickle-bed reactors using capacitance tomography

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 52, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 2111-2127

  Reinecke, Nicolas ^a   Mewes, Dieter ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capacitance tomography; Tomographic imaging; Trickle bed reactors; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

TOMOGRAPHY; TRICKLE BED REACTORS; TWO-PHASE FLOW;

CALCULATIONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PACKED BEDS; PACKING; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY; TRICKE BED REACTOR;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0030616236     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(97)00038-9     Document Type: Article

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