Hydrodynamics of trickle-bed reactors: Experiments and CFD modeling

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6278-6294

  Gunjal, Prashant R ^a   Kashid, Madhavanand N ^a   Ranade, Vivek V ^a   Chaudhari, Raghunath V ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE DROP;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; FLOW REGIMES; LIQUID PHASES; TRICKLE-BED REACTORS;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 23844438938     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0491037     Document Type: Article

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