Hydrodynamics of a cocurrent downflow of gas and foaming liquid through the packed bed. Part II. Liquid holdup and gas pressure drop

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 993-1005

  Bartelmus, Grazyna ^a   Janecki, Daniel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OPOLE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Foaming systems; Hydrodynamics; Liquid holdup; Pressure drop

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKING; PRESSURE DROP;

PULSE FLOW REGIME;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

FOAM; GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; PACKED BED; PRESSURE DROP; PULSED FLOW;

EID: 0141794134     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0255-2701(03)00005-9     Document Type: Article

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