Gas-liquid mass transfer coefficient in stirred tank reactors

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 840-848

  Yawalkar, Archis A ^a   Heesink, Albertus B M ^b   Versteeg, Geert F ^b   Pangarkar, Vishwas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

KLa; N cd; Relative dispersion (N Ncd); STR; VG

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; IMPELLERS; MASS TRANSFER; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

STIRRED TANK REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; REACTOR; STIRRED TANK; VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; GAS; GAS DIFFUSION; GEOMETRY; LIQUID; PARAMETER; PHASE TRANSITION; STIRRED REACTOR; VELOCITY; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 0038002893     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450800507     Document Type: Article

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