Computational strategies for sizing liquid-liquid extractors

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1040-1056

  Kumar, Arun ^a   Hartland, Stanley ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; LIQUID-LIQUID EXTRACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EXTRACTION PROCESS; LIQUID-LIQUID SEPARATION; MODEL;

ARTICLE; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 0033103588     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie980455l     Document Type: Article

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