Liquid dispersion in large bubble columns, with and without internals

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 81, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 360-366

  Forret, Ann ^a   Schweitzer, Jean Marc ^a   Gauthier, Thierry ^a   Krishna, Rajamani ^b   Schweich, Daniel ^c  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LGPC CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Backmixing; Bubble column; Dispersion; Hydrodynamics; Internals; Modeling

Indexed keywords

AXIAL FLOW; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

AXIAL DISPERSION; LIQUID MIXING;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

BUBBLE COLUMN; DISPERSION; LIQUID FLOW; MODELING;

BUBBLE COLUMN REACTOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID; MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS; VELOCITY;

EID: 2942678716     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450810304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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