Effect of particle porosity on hysteresis in trickle-bed reactors

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 8126-8135

  Maiti, Rabindranath ^a   Atta, Arnab ^a   Nigam, K D P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS; ELASTICITY; FLOW OF WATER; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; POROSITY; PRESSURE DROP;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CONSTANT FLOWS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; EXTRUDATES; FIRST CYCLES; FLOW FEATURES; GAS LIQUIDS; HYSTERETIC BEHAVIORS; LIQUID SPREADING; MODES OF OPERATIONS; NONPOROUS PARTICLES; PORE DENSITIES; POROUS PARTICLES; PREWETTING; SHAPE AND SIZES; SOLID PHASIS; STARTUP PROCEDURES; TRICKLE FLOWS; TRICKLE-BED REACTORS; WATER FLOWS;

HYSTERESIS;

EID: 56749140998     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie8003539     Document Type: Article

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