Use of pressure fluctuations to determine online the regime of gas-solids suspensions from incipient fluidization to transport

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 6830-6835

  Hartman, Miloslav ^a   Trnka, Otakar ^a   Svoboda, Karel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMSITE; COARSE-GRAINED; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FLUCTUATING SIGNALS; FLUCTUATION MODEL; GAS SOLID SUSPENSION; GLASS BEAD; INNER DIAMETERS; ONSET OF TURBULENCE; PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; SOLIDS SUSPENSION; TRANSPARENT GLASS;

BUBBLE FORMATION; CALCIUM; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZATION; GLASS; PARTICLE SIZE;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 67849106499     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie900055x     Document Type: Article

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