Prediction of flow regimes transitions in bubble columns using passive acoustic measurements

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-110

  Ajbar, A ^a   Al Masry, W ^a   Ali, E ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Air water system; Bubble column; Chaos; Flow regimes; Hydrophone; Transitions

Indexed keywords

AIR-WATER; AIR-WATER SYSTEM; CHAOS; CHURN-TURBULENT FLOW REGIME; COLUMN FLOW; CRITICAL POINTS; DATA ANALYSIS; DIGITAL VIDEOS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FLOW REGIMES; FLOW REGIMES TRANSITIONS; GAS VELOCITY; PASSIVE ACOUSTICS; PHASE-SPACE TRAJECTORIES; PROCESSING TOOLS; SHAPE AND SIZE; SOUND PRESSURES; SOUND SPECTRUM; SUPERFICIAL GAS VELOCITIES; TIMESERIES; TRANSITION POINT; TRANSITIONS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; AIR; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; BUBBLE FORMATION; CHAOTIC SYSTEMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDROPHONES; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; SPACE FLIGHT; TERNARY SYSTEMS; WATER PIPING SYSTEMS; WATERWORKS;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

EID: 57549100290     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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