Liquid distribution and liquid hold-up in modern high capacity packings

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 585-591

  Alix, Pascal ^a   Raynal, Ludovic ^a  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

Author keywords

Liquid hold up; Random packing; Structured packing

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION COLUMNS; EXTRAPOLATION; FLOW RATE;

LIQUID HOLD-UP; RANDOM PACKING; STRUCTURED PACKING;

DISTILLATION;

DISTILLATION; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; EXTRAPOLATION; FLOW RATE;

EID: 44349148454     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2008.02.021     Document Type: Article

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