An investigation of packed columns using a digital packing algorithm

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 1178-1188

  Caulkin, R ^a   Fairweather, M ^a   Jia, X ^a   Gopinathan, N ^a   Williams, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mixing; Packed columns; Particle packing; Segregation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BINARY MIXTURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIXING; SEPARATION; TERNARY SYSTEMS;

PACKED BED SYSTEMS; PACKED COLUMNS; PARTICLE PACKING; SEGREGATION;

PACKED BEDS;

ALGORITHMS; BINARY MIXTURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIXING; PACKED BEDS; SEPARATION; TERNARY SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646188325     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2006.02.019     Document Type: Article

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