A study on coalescence and breakage mechanisms in three different bubble columns

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 4767-4777

  Colella, Domenico ^a   Vinci, Damiano ^a   Bagatin, Roberto ^b   Masi, Maurizio ^c   Bakr, Eiman ABu ^a  

^a DSM RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b ENI S P A   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE FORMATION; COALESCENCE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VELOCITY;

BREAKAGE MECHANISM; BUBBLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

BUBBLE DISTILLATION COLUMN; COALESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELING;

EID: 0033231728     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(99)00193-1     Document Type: Article

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