Volumetric gas-liquid mass transfer coefficient in aerated stirred tank reactors with dense floating solid particles

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1938-1948

  Tagawa, Atsushi ^a   Dohi, Naoki ^b   Kawase, Yoshinori ^a  

^a TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPARENT VISCOSITY; BUBBLE COALESCENCE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOATING PARTICLES; FLOATING SOLID PARTICLES; FLOATING SOLIDS; GAS HOLD UP; GAS-LIQUID MASS TRANSFER; IMPELLER SPEED; LIQUID SURFACE; SOLID CONCENTRATIONS; SOLID VOLUME FRACTION; STIRRED TANK; STIRRED TANK REACTORS; SUPERFICIAL GAS VELOCITIES; SYNTHETIC ADSORBENTS; WET DENSITY;

BUBBLE COLUMNS; COALESCENCE; GASES; IMPELLERS; MASS TRANSFER; POLYPROPYLENES; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84856558629     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie1023222     Document Type: Article

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