Pulsing to improve bubble column performance: II. Jetting gas rates

AIChE Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1116-1126

  Knopf, F Carl ^a   Waghmare, Yogesh ^a   Ma, Jia ^a   Rice, Richard G ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bubble columns; Mass transfer; Oscillation

Indexed keywords

BENJAMIN - URSELL STABILITY THEORY; BUBBLE COLUMN REACTOR (BCR); GAS FLOW; JETTING;

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; JETS; MASS TRANSFER; OSCILLATIONS; PISTONS; PULSATILE FLOW;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; BUBBLE COLUMNS; JETS; MASS TRANSFER; OSCILLATIONS; PISTONS; PULSATILE FLOW;

EID: 33645561764     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10699     Document Type: Article

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