Mass transfer rates from oscillating bubbles in bubble columns operating with viscous fluids

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 9527-9536

  Martín, Mariano ^a   Montes, Francisco J ^a   Galán, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE FORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; FORCED CONVECTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUIDS; MACHINE DESIGN; MASS TRANSFER; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VISCOSITY; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; VISCOUS FLOW; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

BUBBLE COLLISIONS; BUBBLE DISPERSIONS; BUBBLE OSCILLATIONS; BUBBLE STABILITIES; CRITICAL NUMBERS; HYDRODYNAMIC PROCESSES; LIQUID VISCOSITIES; MASS TRANSFER MECHANISMS; MASS TRANSFER RATES; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NEWTONIANS; OSCILLATING BUBBLES; OSCILLATION AMPLITUDES; POPULATION BALANCES; SCALE-UP; SHERWOOD NUMBERS; THEORETICAL MODELS; TRANSFER RESISTANCES; VISCOUS DISSIPATIONS; VISCOUS FLUIDS; VISCOUS LIQUIDS; VOLUMETRIC MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

EID: 57949095202     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie801077s     Document Type: Article

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