Minimum fluidization velocity and friction factor in a liquid-solid inverse fluidized bed reactor

Bioprocess Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 461-466

  Vijaya Lakshmi, A C ^a   Balamurugan, M ^a   Sivakumar, M ^a   Newton Samuel, T ^a   Velan, M ^a  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

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Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE; POLYPROPYLENE;

ARTICLE; FERMENTATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POROSITY; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0034031591     PISSN: 0178515X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004490050759     Document Type: Article

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