Measurement of Drop Rise Velocities within a Kühni Extraction Column

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 4928-4933

  Kentish, Sandra E ^a   Stevens, Geoff W ^a   Pratt, H R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); EXTRACTION;

CAPILLARY PROBE TECHNIQUE; DROP RISE VELOCITY; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; KUHNI EXTRACTION COLUMN; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION;

VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DROP; EXTRACTION COLUMN; LIQUID-LIQUID SEPARATION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0031278181     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9702690     Document Type: Article

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