Investigation of the gas layer height in a multistage internal-loop airlift reactor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 9278-9285

  Yu, Wei ^a   Wang, Tiefeng ^a   Song, Feifei ^a   Wang, Zhanwen ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-CURRENT FLOW; COUNTER CURRENT; COUNTER-CURRENT FLOW; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GAS CHANNELS; GAS LAYERS; HYDRODYNAMIC BEHAVIOR; INTERNAL-LOOP AIRLIFT REACTORS; LIQUID CHANNELS; LIQUID VELOCITIES; OPENING RATIO; OPTIMUM DESIGNS; SUPERFICIAL GAS; SUPERFICIAL GAS VELOCITIES; SUPERFICIAL LIQUID VELOCITY;

BUBBLE COLUMNS; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FLUID DYNAMICS; LIQUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GASES;

EID: 70350328453     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9002156     Document Type: Article

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