Liquid holdup in trickle-bed reactors at very low liquid reynolds numbers

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6504-6508

  Lange, Rüdiger ^a   Schubert, Markus ^a   Bauer, Tobias ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGEN; NITROGEN; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

GAS FLOW RATE; LIQUID REYNOLDS NUMBERS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC LIQUID HOLDUP FRACTIONS; TRICKLE-BED REACTOR;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

EID: 23844554313     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie048906r     Document Type: Article

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