Flooding of gas-solids countercurrent flow in fluidized beds

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 5611-5619

  Bi, Hsiaotao ^a   Cui, Heping ^a   Grace, John ^a   Kern, Andreas ^a   Lim, C Jim ^a   Rusnell, Dan ^b   Song, Xuqi ^a   McKnight, Craig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SYNCRUDE CANADA LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF SOLIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

FLUID COKERS; STRIPPER ZONES;

FLUIDIZED BEDS;

COUNTERCURRENT FLOW; FLOOD; FLUIDIZED BED; GAS-SOLID TWO-PHASE FLOW; MODELING;

ARTICLE; COKING INDUSTRY; COLD FLOW MODEL; COMPUTER PREDICTION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUIDIZED BED; GAS ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PROCESS MODEL; SEMICIRCULAR PILOT SCALE COLD MODEL; SEMIEMPIRICAL MODEL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLID; VELOCITY;

EID: 4344610466     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie030772e     Document Type: Article

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