Wall effects for the pressure drop in fixed beds

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 59, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 3037-3040

  Di Felice, R ^a   Gibilaro, L G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; Packed bed; Reaction engineering; Viscous and inertial flow; Void fraction; Wall effects

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; VISCOUS FLOW; WALL FLOW;

FIXED BEDS; INERTIAL FLOW; PRESSURE DROPS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

FIXED BED; PACKED BED; PRESSURE DROP;

EID: 3042576510     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2004.03.030     Document Type: Article

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