Operation performance of a small air-lift pump for conveying solid particles

Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-25

  Fujimoto, Hitoshi ^a   Ogawa, Satoshi ^a   Takuda, Hirohiko ^a   Hatta, Natsuo ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON BUNRI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air lift pump; Critical boundary of transport of solid particles; Gas injection point; Gas liquid solid three phase flow; Particle size

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; COMPRESSED AIR; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FLOW PATTERNS; GLASS; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PERFORMANCE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY;

AIR-LIFT PUMP; GAS INJECTION POINT; PARTICLE DENSITY; PARTICLE DIAMETER;

PUMPS;

EID: 0037356925     PISSN: 01950738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1514498     Document Type: Article

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