Studies in multiple impeller agitated gas-liquid contactors

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 489-504

  Shewale, Satish D ^a   Pandit, Aniruddha B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI   (India)

Author keywords

Compartment model; Exchange flow rate; Flow patterns; Gas liquid contactor; Mixing time; Multiple impeller system

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FLOW PATTERNS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMPELLERS; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING; TURBINES;

COMPARTMENT MODEL; EXCHANGE FLOW RATE; GAS-LIQUID CONTACTORS; MIXING TIME; MULTIPLE IMPELLER SYSTEMS;

CHEMICAL EQUIPMENT;

EXCHANGE FLOW; GAS-LIQUID MIXING; IMPELLER; MIXING;

EID: 27144461995     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2005.04.078     Document Type: Article

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