Airlift reactors: Hydrodynamics, mass transfer and applications in environmental remediation

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 681-702

  Cozma, Petronela ^a   Cozma, Maria ^a  

^a GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Environmental remediation; Gas hold up; Liquid velocity; Mass transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956973880     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2010.093     Document Type: Article

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