Gas-liquid flow and mass transfer in an advanced-flow reactor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 26, 2013, Pages 8996-9010

  Nieves Remacha, María José ^a   Kulkarni, Amol A ^a,b   Jensen, Klavs F ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAKUP AND COALESCENCES; BUBBLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; MASS TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; OVERALL MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; POWER LAW RELATIONSHIP; SPECIFIC INTERFACIAL AREA; VISUALIZATION EXPERIMENT;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COALESCENCE; FLOW RATE; FLOW VISUALIZATION; GASES; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUIDS; PRESSURE DROP; TWO PHASE FLOW;

MASS TRANSFER;

EID: 84879861012     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie4011707     Document Type: Article

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