Local liquid saturation measurements inside a trickle bed reactor operating near the transition between pulsing and trickling flow

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 62, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 7225-7232

  Llamas, J D ^a   Lesage, F ^a   Wild, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Multiphase flow; Porous media; Tomography; Trickle bed reactor

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; TOMOGRAPHY;

FLOW REGIMES; TRICKLE-BED REACTOR;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

ALUMINA; CHEMICAL REACTORS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 36048977217     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2007.08.038     Document Type: Article

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