Liquid load point determination in a reactive distillation packing by X-ray tomography

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 611-617

  Aferka, S ^a   Viva, A ^a   Brunazzi, E ^b   Marchot, P ^a   Crine, M ^a   Toye, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; Liquid load point; Modular packing; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC DISTILLATION; CATALYTIC PACKINGS; COUNTER CURRENT; GAS FLOWS; HYBRID STRUCTURE; KATAPAK; LIQUID DISTRIBUTION; LIQUID HOLD-UP; LIQUID LOAD POINT; LIQUID LOADS; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; PACKING ELEMENT; REACTIVE DISTILLATION PACKING; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; VERTICAL POSITIONS; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

DISTILLATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PACKED BEDS; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 77954713327     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: 1939019X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.20320     Document Type: Article

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