Modeling the effect of drop charge on coalescence in turbulent liquid-liquid dispersions

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1090-1104

  Tobin, Thomas ^a   Ramkrishna, Doraiswami ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b International Paper   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalescence; Discretization; Population balance

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; DISPERSIONS; DROP BREAKUP; IONIC STRENGTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TURBULENCE;

DROP DEFORMABILITY; DROP SIZE; STOCHASTIC FILM DRAINAGE ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE INTENSITY;

DROP FORMATION;

COALESCENCE; DROPLET; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; TWO-PHASE DISPERSION;

EID: 0033491720     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450770603     Document Type: Article

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