Trickle bed wetting factors from pressure drop and liquid holdup measurements

Chemical Engineering Communications

Volumn 189, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1653-1670

  Luciani, Yanina ^a   González Mendizabal, Dosinda ^a   Pironti, Filippo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^b INELECTRA CA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Liquid holdup; Pressure drop; Shear stress; Trickle bed reactor; Wetting efficiency; Wetting factor

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; GASES; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY; WETTING;

WETTING FACTORS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

GAS FLOW; HOLD-UP; PRESSURE DROP; SHEAR STRESS; TRICKLE BED REACTOR; WETTING;

EID: 0142187249     PISSN: 00986445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00986440214583     Document Type: Article

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