Hydrodynamics of pulsing flow in three-phase fixed-bed reactor operating at an elevated pressure

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 4511-4521

  Burghardt, Andrzej ^a   Bartelmus, Grazyna ^a   Szlemp, Anna ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PULSATILE FLOW; SOLUTIONS; VISCOSITY;

GAS CONTINUOUS FLOW (GCF); PULSING FLOW REGIME (PF); THREE-PHASE FIXED-BED REACTORS; TRICKLE-BED REACTORS (TBR);

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

ARGON; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GLYCEROL; HELIUM; NITROGEN;

FIXED BED; HYDRODYNAMICS; PRESSURE; PULSATING FLOW; REACTOR;

AIR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; FIXED BED REACTOR; GAS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRESSURE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 3543026299     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie030726e     Document Type: Article

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