Hydrodynamics of trickling flow in packed beds: Relative permeability concept

AIChE Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 731-738

  Lakota, Ana ^a   Levec, Janez ^a   Carbonell, Ruben G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PACKED BEDS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

POWER-LAW;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

HYDRODYNAMICS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PACKED BED; PERMEABILITY; TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FLUID FLOW; GAS FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; PACKED BED REACTOR; PARTICLE SIZE; PERMEABILITY; PREDICTION; PRESSURE;

EID: 0036557111     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690480408     Document Type: Article

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