Effect of organic surfactant additives on gas holdup in the pseudo-homogeneous regime in bubble columns equipped with fine pore sparger

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 5872-5880

  Anastasiou, A D ^a   Kazakis, N A ^a   Mouza, A A ^a   Paras, S V ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bubble columns; Chemical processes; Gas holdup; Multiphase flow; Porous sparger; Surfactants

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CHEMICAL PROCESSES; COMMERCIAL SURFACTANTS; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GAS HOLDUP; GENERAL CORRELATIONS; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; IONIC SURFACTANTS; NONIONIC; ORGANIC SURFACTANTS; POROUS SPARGER; PURE SUBSTANCES; REASONABLE ACCURACY; SURFACTANT ADDITIVES; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS; SURFACTANTS; TRITON X-100;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; DYES; GASES; MULTIPHASE FLOW; SOLUTIONS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

EID: 77957368233     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.08.011     Document Type: Article

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