Prevention of flooding in a countercurrent trickle-bed reactor using additional void space

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 138, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 333-340

  Breijer, Alex A J ^a   Nijenhuis, John ^a   Van Ommen, J Ruud ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flow regime transition; Hydrodynamics; Mass transfer; Packed beds; Pressure drop; Structured reactors; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; PACKED BEDS; PRESSURE DROP; TWO PHASE FLOW;

FLOW REGIME TRANSITION; PERSPEX MODEL SYSTEM; STRUCTURED REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; PACKED BEDS; PRESSURE DROP; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 40749161520     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2007.06.014     Document Type: Article

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