Characterization of regimes and regime transitions in bubble columns by chaos analysis of pressure signals

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 52, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 4447-4459

  Letzel, H M ^a,b   Schouten, J C ^a   Krishna, R ^b   Van den Bleek, C M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bubble column; Chaos analysis; Flow regime transition; Kolmogorov entropy; Pressure sensing; Regime characterization

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CHAOS THEORY; ENTROPY; TRANSITION FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

KOLMOGOROV ENTROPY; PRESSURE FLUCTUATION SIGNAL;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

BUBBLE DISTILLATION COLUMN; FLUIDIZED BED; PRESSURE;

EID: 0031553373     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(97)00290-X     Document Type: Article

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