Improved hydrodynamic model for wetting efficiency, pressure drop, and liquid holdup in trickle-bed reactors

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 8436-8444

  Lappalainen, Katja ^a   Alopaeus, Ville ^a   Manninen, Mikko ^b   Aittamaa, Juhani ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c Neste Oil Oyj   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; PACKED BEDS; PRESSURE DROP; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

1D MODELS; BED REACTORS; DESIGN AND MODELING; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSES; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS; GAS LIQUIDS; HYDRODYNAMIC MODELS; INDUSTRIAL REACTORS; LIQUID HOLD-UPS; LIQUID SATURATIONS; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; MODEL DEVELOPMENTS; MOMENTUM EQUATIONS; PARTIAL WETTING; SYSTEMATIC TESTS; TRICKLE-BED REACTORS; WETTING EFFICIENCIES;

WETTING;

EID: 56749125275     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie8003754     Document Type: Article

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