Liquid hold-up correlations for trickle beds without gas flow

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-90

  Larachi, F ^a   Belfares, L ^a   Iliuta, I ^a   Grandjean, B P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Liquid hold up; Neural network correlation; Slit model; Trickle bed

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

TRICKLE BEDS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

GAS FLOW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; NEURAL NETWORK; TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

EID: 0142259918     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0255-2701(03)00002-3     Document Type: Article

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