Effect of scale-up on wall shear rates in circulating bubble columns

Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1230-1235

  Al Masry, Waheed A ^a   Al Ahmed, Malik I ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Circulating bubble column; Newtonian; Non Newtonia; Shear rate; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

ACRYLICS; CELLULOSE; NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; SOLUTIONS; VISCOSITY;

CARBOXYMETHYL CELLULOSE; CIRCULATING BUBBLE COLUMN; NEWTONIAN SOLUTIONS; NON-NEWTONIAN SOLUTIONS; WALL SHEAR RATES; XANTHAN GUM;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

ACRYLIC ACID RESIN; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; GLYCEROL; POLYMER; XANTHAN;

BUBBLE COLUMN; NEWTONIAN FLUID; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID; POLYMER SOLUTION; SHEAR RATE; VISCOSITY;

ACCURACY; AIRLIFT REACTOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISPERSION; FLOW RATE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SHEAR RATE; SIMULATION; VISCOSITY; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 27744544668     PISSN: 02682575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jctb.1309     Document Type: Article

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