Gas hold-up, mixing time and gas-liquid volumetric mass transfer coefficient of various multiple-impeller configurations: Rushton turbine, pitched blade and techmix impeller and their combinations

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1839-1846

  Moucha, Toḿš ^a   Linek, Václav ^a   Prokopová, Eva ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Gas liquid contactor; Homogenisation; Hydrodynamics; Mass transfer; Mixing; Multi impeller vessel

Indexed keywords

GASES; IMPELLERS; MASS TRANSFER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TURBINES;

GAS HOLD-UPS;

DISPERSIONS;

GAS-LIQUID MIXING; IMPELLER; MASS TRANSFER;

EID: 0038743417     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(02)00682-6     Document Type: Article

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