Scale-up of bubble column reactors: A review of current state-of-the-art

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 8091-8108

  Shaikh, Ashfaq ^a   Al Dahhan, Muthanna ^b  

^a EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE COLUMN REACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; DYNAMIC SIMILARITIES; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FLOW REACTION SYSTEMS; HYDRODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; MIXING CHARACTERISTICS; NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSTICS;

BUBBLE COLUMNS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EXTRAPOLATION; MIXING; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 84879346848     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie302080m     Document Type: Review

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