Population balance modelling of phase inversion in liquid-liquid pipeline flows

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 61, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 4994-4997

  Hu, Bin ^a,b   Matar, Omar K ^b   Hewitt, Geoffrey F ^b   Angeli, Panagiota ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambivalent region; Liquid liquid flow; Phase inversion; Pipe flow; Population balance equation

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIPELINES; VOLUME FRACTION;

AMBIVALENT REGION; LIQUID-LIQUID FLOW; PHASE INVERSION; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION;

PIPE FLOW;

DISPERSIONS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIPE FLOW; PIPELINES; VOLUME FRACTION;

EID: 33744539046     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.03.053     Document Type: Article

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