Experimental studies on phase inversion in a small diameter horizontal pipe

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 819-826

  De, B ^a   Mandal, T K ^b   Das, G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

FFT; Optical probe; PDF; Phase inversion; Pressure drop; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

DISPERSED FLOW; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HOMOGENOUS MIXTURES; HORIZONTAL PIPES; ISOKINETIC SAMPLING; MIXTURE VELOCITY; OIL-IN-WATER; OPTICAL PROBE; PDF; PHASE INVERSION; PRESSURE DROP MEASUREMENTS; SMALL-DIAMETER; TWO PHASIS; WATER FLOWS; WATER-IN-OIL;

EMULSIFICATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FLOW PATTERNS; MIXTURES; PIPE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBES; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

PRESSURE DROP;

EID: 77953381374     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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