Quantitative estimates of gas maldistribution and methods for their localization in absorption columns

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1381-1392

  Petrova, Tatyana ^a   Vaklieva Bancheva, Natasha ^a   Darakchiev, Simeon ^a   Popov, Roman ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Absorption; Contact economizer; Gas distribution device; Gas maldistribution indices; Random and structured packing

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ECONOMIZERS; FLOW OF GASES; FLOW VELOCITY; FOOD PRODUCTS; GASES; MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

ABSORPTION COLUMNS; GAS DISTRIBUTION; GAS FLOW MALDISTRIBUTION; GAS MAL DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATIONS; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; STRUCTURED PACKINGS;

GAS ABSORPTION;

EID: 84920710919     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-014-0771-2     Document Type: Article

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