Multicompartment hydrodynamic model for slurry bubble columns

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3379-3399

  Iliuta, Ion ^a   Larachi, Faïçal ^a   Desvigne, Damien ^b   Anfray, Jérôme ^c   Dromard, Nicolas ^c   Schweich, Daniel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c TOTAL   (France)

^d LGPC CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bubble coalescence and breakup; Hydrodynamics; Multicompartment modeling; Sedimentation dispersion; Slurry bubble column; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; HYDRODYNAMICS; SEDIMENTATION; TURBULENCE;

BUBBLE COALESCENCE; MULTICOMPARTMENT MODELING; SEDIMENTATION-DISPERSION; SLURRY BUBBLE COLUMN;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

BUBBLE COLUMNS; COALESCENCE; HYDRODYNAMICS; SEDIMENTATION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 44749091656     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2008.03.040     Document Type: Article

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