Liquid holdup in packed beds at low mass flux

AIChE Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1597-1600

  De Klerk, Arno ^a  

^a SASOL TECHNOLOGY PTY LTD   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PACKED BED;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DYNAMICS; FLOW RATE; FLUID FLOW; GAS FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PACKED BED REACTOR; PARAMETER; POROSITY; PRESSURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSPORT KINETICS; WETTABILITY;

EID: 0038179006     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690490622     Document Type: Article

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