Study of liquid spreading from a point source in a trickle bed via gamma-ray tomography and CFD simulation

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 60, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 6279-6288

  Boyer, C ^a   Koudil, A ^a   Chen, P ^a   Dudukovic, M P ^b  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure term; CFD model; Trickle bed

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GAMMA RAYS; TOMOGRAPHY;

GAMMA-RAY TOMOGRAPHY; GAS FLOW RATES; SINGLE POINT SOURCE; TRICKLE BED;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

EID: 22744443465     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2005.03.049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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