Tracer dispersion in packings of porous activated carbon grains

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 4137-4144

  Drazer, German ^a   Chertcoff, Ricardo ^a   Bruno, Luciana ^a   Rosen, Marta ^a   Hulin, J P ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Activated carbon; Diffusion; Dispersion; Double porosity; Nonlinear adsorption; Radioactive tracer

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DIFFUSION; DISPERSIONS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKED BEDS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POROSITY; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; VELOCITY;

LONGITUDINAL HYDRODYNAMIC DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; MEAN TRACER VELOCITY; MOBILE FLUID FRACTION; PECLET NUMBER; RADIOACTIVE DISPERSION;

ACTIVATED CARBON;

ACTIVATED CARBON; DISPERSION; PACKED BED; PACKING;

EID: 0033603275     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(99)00087-1     Document Type: Article

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