Modeling local gas-liquid mass transfer in agitated viscous shear-thinning dispersions with CFD

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 7289-7299

  Moilanen, Pasi ^a   Laakkonen, Marko ^a   Visuri, Olli ^a   Aittamaa, Juhani ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSIONS; MIXING; VISCOSITY;

GAS-LIQUID REACTORS; HETEROGENEOUS MASS TRANSFER;

MASS TRANSFER;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSIONS; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING; VISCOSITY;

EID: 35948933150     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie070566x     Document Type: Article

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