Gas holdup in homogeneous and heterogeneous gas-liquid bubble column reactors

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-21

  Sarrafi, Amir ^a   Jamialahmadi, Mohammad ^b   Müller Steinhagen, Hans ^a   Smith, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Petroleum Industry   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bubbly churn transition; Heterogeneous homogeneous transition; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

GAS HOLDUP; MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

BUBBLE DISTILLATION COLUMN; GAS-LIQUID MIXING; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER;

EID: 0033080053     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450770104     Document Type: Article

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