Turbulent liquid-liquid dispersion in sulzer SMX mixer

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 623-632

  Theron, Félicie ^a   Le Sauze, Nathalie ^a   Ricard, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BLASIUS; BREAK-UP; DROPLET SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; KOLMOGOROV; LIQUID-LIQUID DISPERSIONS; LIQUID-LIQUID SYSTEMS; MIXING DEVICES; MIXING ELEMENTS; NEW CORRELATIONS; REYNOLDS; SAUTER MEAN DIAMETERS; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW; TURBULENT LIQUIDS; WEBER NUMBERS;

COALESCENCE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DISPERSIONS; EMULSIFICATION; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 75249106625     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie900090d     Document Type: Article

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