Liquid holdup and pressure drop in the gas-liquid cocurrent downflow packed-bed reactor under elevated pressures

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 59, Issue 22-23, 2004, Pages 5387-5393

  Guo, Jing ^a   Al Dahhan, Muthanna ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Moment analysis; Multiphase flow; Packed bed; Porous media; Pressure drop; Residence time distribution

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC REACTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRESSURE DROP; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

GAS-LIQUID DOWNFLOW; REACTOR PRESSURES; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; TWO-PHASE FLOW RATES;

PRESSURE EFFECTS;

GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; HOLD-UP; PACKED BED; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE DROP;

EID: 10044267759     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2004.07.106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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