Investigation of operation regimes in a multistage internal-loop airlift reactor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 11752-11759

  Yu, Wei ^a   Wang, Tiefeng ^a   Liu, Malin ^a   Song, Feifei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNTER-CURRENT FLOW; GAS CHANNELS; GAS LAYERS; INTERNAL-LOOP AIRLIFT REACTORS; LIQUID CHANNELS; LIQUID VELOCITIES; LONG TUBES; OPENING RATIO; OPERATION FLEXIBILITY; OPERATION REGIME; PERFORATED PLATE; REGIME MAP; SCALE-UP; SLURRY PHASIS; SOLID PARTICLES; SUPERFICIAL GAS;

ENHANCED RECOVERY; LIQUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORATED PLATES;

GASES;

EID: 78449273468     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie100746z     Document Type: Article

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