Triphasic external-loop airlift reactors. Hydrodynamic and dispersion studies

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 217-225

  Gavrilescu, Maria ^a   Ungureanu, Florina ^a   Tudose, Radu Z ^a  

^a GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Airlift; Axial mixing; Bodenstein number; External loop; Gas hold up; Hydrodynamics; Liquid circulation; Solid loading

Indexed keywords

EID: 47649119144     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2008.036     Document Type: Article

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