Pressure drops for purely viscous non-Newtonian fluid flow through beds packed with mixed-size spheres

Chemical Engineering Communications

Volumn 189, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1403-1414

  Cicéron, Delphine ^a   Comiti, Jacques ^a   Chhabra, Rajendra P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Capillary representation; Mixed size spheres; Non Newtonian; Packed beds; Pressure drops

Indexed keywords

NEWTONIAN FLOW; PRESSURE DROP;

MIXED-SIZE SPHERES;

VISCOUS FLOW;

MEASUREMENT METHOD; NON-NEWTONIAN FLOW; PACKED BED; PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE DROP;

EID: 0242306885     PISSN: 00986445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00986440214060     Document Type: Article

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