Gas-Liquid Interfacial Mass Transfer in Trickle-Bed Reactors at Elevated Pressures

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 718-733

  Larachi, F ^a   Cassanello, M ^b   Laurent, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINES; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CARBON DIOXIDE; GAS ABSORPTION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE INTERFACES; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

CARBAMATION; MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; TRICKLE BED REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

MASS TRANSFER; PRESSURE; TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

EID: 0032029966     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie960903u     Document Type: Article

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