Gas-liquid interfacial mass transfer in trickle-bed reactors: State-of-the-art correlations

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 5633-5645

  Iliuta, Ion ^b   Larachi, Faïçal ^b   Grandjean, Bernard P A ^b   Wild, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Correlations; Dimensional analysis; Gas liquid mass transfer; Trickle bed reactor

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CORRELATION METHODS; MASS TRANSFER; NEURAL NETWORKS; PHASE INTERFACES; TWO PHASE FLOW;

DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; TRICKLE BED REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

CORRELATION; GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; NEURAL NETWORK; TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

EID: 0032744630     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(99)00129-3     Document Type: Article

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