Measurement of dynamic liquid distributions in a fixed bed using electrical capacitance tomography and capacitance wire-mesh sensor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2070-2077

  Matusiak, Bartosz ^b   Da Silva, Marco Jose ^a   Hampel, Uwe ^a   Romanowski, Andrzej ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DYNAMIC LIQUID HOLD-UP; ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY; FIXED BED; FIXED BED OPERATIONS; FLOWTHROUGH; LINEAR BACK PROJECTION; LIQUID DISTRIBUTION; LIQUID HOLD UPS; REFERENCE INSTRUMENTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; SYSTEMATIC DEVIATION;

CAPACITANCE; PIPE FLOW; SENSORS; TOMOGRAPHY; WIRE;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 77649337255     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie900988f     Document Type: Article

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