Container effects on the free drainage of wet foams

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1404-1415

  Papara, Maria ^a   Zabulis, Xenophon ^a,b   Karapantsios, Thodoris D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aeration; Foam; Food processing; Non Newtonian fluids; Scale up; Stability

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; FOOD PROCESSING; HYDROPHOBICITY; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; RHEOLOGY; VISCOUS FLOW;

AERATION; BEFORE AND AFTER; BUBBLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; CONTAINER WALLS; DIFFERENT HEIGHTS; DRAINAGE RATES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTANCES; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENTS; FOAM STRUCTURES; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC; HYDROPHOBIC CONTAINERS; LIQUID FRACTIONS; LOCAL LIQUIDS; NON-INTRUSIVE; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; PLEXIGLAS; RING ELECTRODES; SCALE-UP; VOLUMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; WET FOAMS; WORK STUDIES;

CONTAINERS;

EID: 60549109848     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2008.11.021     Document Type: Article

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