An investigation of sphere packed shell-side columns using a digital packing algorithm

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1715-1724

  Caulkin, R ^a   Ahmad, A ^a   Fairweather, M ^a   Jia, X ^a   Williams, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digitalisation; Packed columns; Packing algorithm; Shell side beds

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

DIGITAL PACKING ALGORITHM; DIGITALIZATION; PACKED COLUMNS; PARTICULATE SYSTEMS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548491791     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2007.03.014     Document Type: Article

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