Liquid saturation in cocurrent upflow fixed-bed reactors: A state-of-the-art correlation

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 52, Issue 21-22, 1997, Pages 4239-4247

  Bensetiti, Z ^a   Larachi, F ^a   Grandjean, B P A ^a   Wild, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Flooded packed beds; Liquid saturation; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PACKED BEDS;

COCURRENT UPFLOW; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; FIXED BED REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

BED; LIQUID; NEURAL NETWORK; REACTOR; SATURATION;

EID: 0031278430     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(97)00267-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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