Monitoring filtration in trickle beds using electrical capacitance tomography

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1140-1153

  Hamidipour, Mohsen ^a   Larachi, Faïçai ^a   Ring, Zbigniew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Residue Hydrocracking ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHIES; FILTER CAKES; FINE PARTICLES; FLOW CHARACTERISTICS; GAS SUPERFICIAL VELOCITIES; GAS VELOCITIES; LIQUID HOLD-UP; LIQUID SUPERFICIAL VELOCITIES; LIQUID SUSPENSIONS; LITERATURE DATUM; LOCAL DEPOSITIONS; NON-POLAR HYDROCARBONS; PULSE FLOWS; PULSE VELOCITIES; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; SINGLE-PHASE FLOWS; TRICKLE BEDS; TRICKLE-BED REACTORS; UNSTEADY STATE;

AIR FILTERS; CAPACITANCE; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRON TUBE DIODES; GASES; HYDROCARBONS; LIQUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

FILTRATION;

EID: 61549111793     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie800810t     Document Type: Article

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