Morphodynamics during air injection into water-saturated movable spherical granulates

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4652-4660

  Kong, Xiang Zhao ^a   Kinzelbach, Wolfgang ^a   Stauffer, Fritz ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Air injection; Fluidization; Morphology; Multi phase flow; Packed bed; Pattern

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; AIR INJECTION; AIRFLOW PATTERNS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DIFFERENT LENGTH SCALE; DYNAMIC REGIMES; INJECTION RATES; MORPHODYNAMICS; SINGLE CHANNELS; SPHERICAL GLASS; TREE-LIKE PATTERNS; VERTICAL POSITIONS;

AIR; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZATION; GLASS TRANSITION; MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OSCILLATING FLOW; PACKED BEDS;

WATER INJECTION;

EID: 77954382661     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.05.007     Document Type: Article

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