Partial wetting in porous catalysts: Wettability and wetting efficiency

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 57, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 3401-3405

  Khanna, Rajesh ^a   Nigam, K D P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Contact line; Porous catalysts; Wettability; Wetting efficiency

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; COALESCENCE; POROUS MATERIALS;

RIVULETS;

WETTING;

WETTING;

EID: 0036699565     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(02)00211-7     Document Type: Article

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