Hydrodynamics in Three-Phase Stirred Tank Reactors with Non-Newtonian Fluids

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 270-276

  Kawase, Yoshinori ^a   Shimizu, Kazuhiro ^a   Araki, Takae ^a   Shimodaira, Tatsuya ^a  

^a TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; NON NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; STIRRED TANKS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS; CORRELATION METHODS; DISPERSIONS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; LOADING; MIXING; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; VISCOSITY;

CRITICAL IMPELLER SPEEDS; GAS DISPERSION; LIQUID PHASE MIXING; SOLID SUSPENSION; THREE PHASE STIRRED TANK REACTORS;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0030617247     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie960452d     Document Type: Article

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