Time-series analysis approach for the identification of flooding/loading transition in gas-liquid stirred tank reactors

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 55, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 5793-5802

  Paglianti, Alessandro ^a   Pintus, Sandro ^a   Giona, Massimiliano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FLOODING/LOADING TRANSITIONS; MULTIPHASE REACTORS; STIRRED TANK REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

FLUID DYNAMICS; REACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIRRED TANK;

EID: 0034353070     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(00)00125-1     Document Type: Article

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