Effects of mass transfer on the hydrodynamic behavior of a Karr reciprocating plate column

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1596-1604

  Aravamudan, Kannan ^a,b   Baird, Malcolm H I ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; COALESCENCE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENCE; WATER;

KARR RECIPROCATING PLATE COLUMNS; KOLMOGOROFF'S ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE THEORY; MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; PROPANOL;

EXTRACTION;

DENSITY; LIQUID-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; MIXING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; COUNTERCURRENT SYSTEM; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; TRANSPORT KINETICS; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0032900067     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie980605s     Document Type: Article

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