New insights into transient behaviors of local liquid-holdup in periodically operated trickle-bed reactors using electrical capacitance tomography (ECT)

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 64, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3329-3343

  Liu, Guozhu ^a   Lan, Jiang an ^b   Cao, Yanbin ^a   Huang, Zibin ^b   Cheng, Zhenmin ^b   Mi, Zhentao ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Electrical capacitance tomography; Imaging; Liquid distribution; Liquid holdup; Maldistribution; Periodic operation; Transient response; Trickle bed reactor

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING; LIQUID DISTRIBUTION; LIQUID HOLDUP; MALDISTRIBUTION; PERIODIC OPERATION; TRANSIENT RESPONSE; TRICKLE-BED REACTOR;

AIR; BREEDER REACTORS; CAPACITANCE; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 67349277690     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2009.04.008     Document Type: Article

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