Studies on frictional pressure drop of gas-non-Newtonian two-phase flow in a cocurrent downflow bubble column

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 59, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 3807-3815

  Mandal, Ajay ^a   Kundu, Gautam ^a   Mukherjee, Dibyendu ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Bubble columns; Hydrodynamics; Mixing; Non Newtonian fluids; Pressure drop

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE COLUMNS; FRICTION; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PRESSURE DROP;

BUBBLY FLOW; SYSTEM VARIABLES;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

BUBBLE COLUMN; MIXING; NON-NEWTONIAN FLOW; PRESSURE DROP; TWO-PHASE FLOW;

EID: 4143091392     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2004.03.037     Document Type: Article

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