Cyclic operation strategy for extending cycle life of trickle beds under gas-liquid filtration

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 62, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 7426-7435

  Hamidipour, Mohsen ^a   Larachi, Faïçal ^a   Ring, Zbigniew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CENTRE FOR UPGRADING TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cyclic operation; Deposition; Filtration; Hydrodynamics; Trickle bed

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; CONTAMINATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

CYCLIC OPERATION; TRICKLE BEDS;

FILTRATION;

BINARY MIXTURES; CONTAMINATION; FILTRATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 36049006782     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2007.08.021     Document Type: Article

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