Ejector Performance in a Co-Current Gas-Liquid Downflow Bubble Column

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 956-963

  Kundu, Gautam ^a   Mukherjee, Dibyendu ^a   Mitra, Arun K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Bubble column; Downflow; Fractional energy; Mixing energy; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

AXIAL FLOW; BINARY MIXTURES; CORRELATION METHODS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FRICTION; MIXING; NOZZLES; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EJECTOR LOSS COEFFICIENTS; TWO PHASE DOWNFLOW BUBBLE COLUMN;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

EID: 0031245741     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450750516     Document Type: Article

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