Imaging of liquid distribution in reactive distillation packings with a new high-energy x-ray tomograph

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2213-2220

  Toye, D ^a   Crine, M ^a   Marchot, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; Liquid distribution; Reactive distillation; Structured packings; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

LIQUID DISTRIBUTION; REACTIVE DISTILLATION PACKING;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

DISTILLATION COLUMN; FIXED BED; IMAGING METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REACTIVE SEPARATION; X-RAY TECHNIQUE;

EID: 27344451822     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 09570233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/16/11/012     Document Type: Article

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