Local hydrodynamics modeling of a gas-liquid-solid three-phase airlift loop reactor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 5210-5220

  Jia, Xiaoqiang ^a   Wen, Jianping ^a   Feng, Wei ^a   Yuan, Qing ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; PROBES; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

AIRLIFT LOOP REACTOR (ALR); BUBBLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; GAS-LIQUID-SOLID (GLS); MULTIPLE SIZE GROUP;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

ANEMOMETERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; PROBES; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547433574     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie061697l     Document Type: Article

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