Prediction of phase inversion in agitated vessels using a two-region model

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 60, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 3487-3495

  Hu, Bin ^a,b   Angeli, Panagiota ^a   Matar, Omar K ^b   Hewitt, Geoffrey F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambivalent range; Coalescence; Dispersion; Drop; Modelling; Phase inversion

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); IMPELLERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY;

AGITATED VESSELS; PHASE INVERSION; RADIAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; TWO-REGION MODELS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

PREDICTION;

EID: 17644372773     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2005.02.002     Document Type: Article

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