Exploring the essence of three-phase packed distillation: Substantial mass transfer computation

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 822-837

  Chen, Liang ^a   Repke, Jens Uwe ^b   Wozny, Günter ^b   Wang, Shuqing ^c  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c STATE KEY LABORATORY OF INDUSTRIAL CONTROL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS PHASE; EXPERIMENTAL DATABASE; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOW BEHAVIORS; FLOW PATTERN IDENTIFICATION; INTERFACIAL AREAS; INTERPHASE TRANSFER; LABORATORY SCALE; LIQUID FLOW; LOAD CONDITION; MASS TRANSFER MODELS; MODEL VALIDATION; NON-EQUILIBRIUM SIMULATIONS; PACKED COLUMN; PROPANOL SYSTEMS; SURFACE VARIATIONS; THREE-PHASE DISTILLATION; THREE-PHASE FLOW; VAPOR-LIQUID; VARIABLE SEPARATION;

DISTILLATION; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; FLOW PATTERNS; LIQUID FILMS; VAPORS;

MASS TRANSFER;

EID: 75249091322     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9010645     Document Type: Article

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