The Bjerknes effect: Explaining pulsed-flow behavior in bubble columns

AIChE Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1678-1686

  Waghmare, Y G ^a   Knopf, F Carl ^a   Rice, Richard G ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bubble column; Liquid pulsation; Mass transfer

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE-SIZE; FLUID OSCILLATION; GAS VELOCITIES; PENETRATION MODEL;

DISSOLUTION; MASS TRANSFER; OXYGEN; PULSATILE FLOW;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

BUBBLE COLUMNS; DISSOLUTION; MASS TRANSFER; OXYGEN; PULSATILE FLOW;

EID: 34547204034     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11200     Document Type: Article

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