The liquid spreading on porous solids: Dual action of pores

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 60, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 6235-6239

  Maiti, R N ^a   Arora, R ^a   Khanna, R ^a   Nigam, K D P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Hysteresis; Liquid spreading on pores; Pinning of contact line; Trickle bed reactor; Wetting efficiency

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; HYSTERESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; VIDEO CAMERAS; WETTING;

LIQUID DROPS; LIQUID SPREADING; PARTIAL WETTING; POROUS CATALYSTS;

FLUID MECHANICS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; HYSTERESIS; TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

EID: 22744446593     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2005.05.022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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