The scale-up of large bubbles attached to spargers in downward two-phase flow

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 3893-3898

  Lee, Y H ^a   Scott, D M ^a   Thorpe, R B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air entrainment; Air sparger; Bubble runaway; Large bubbles; Scale up; Two phase downflow

Indexed keywords

AIR ENTRAINMENT; BUBBLE COLUMNS; GLYCEROL; PIPE; SOLUTIONS; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

AIR SPARGER; BUBBLE RUNAWAY; LARGE BUBBLES; SCALE UP; TWO PHASE DOWNFLOW;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS);

AIR ENTRAINMENT; BUBBLE; BUBBLE DISTILLATION COLUMN; TWO-PHASE FLOW;

EID: 0033522772     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(99)00084-6     Document Type: Article

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