Single Air Bubble Breakup Experiments in Stirred Water Tank

International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 477-491

  Solsvik, Jannike ^a   Jakobsen, Hugo A ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

breakup; breakup probability; breakup time; bubble; high speed imaging; number of daughter bubbles; population balance equation; stirred tank

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE COLUMNS; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); DROP BREAKUP; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SHEAR FLOW; VELOCITY; WATER TANKS;

BREAK-UP PROBABILITY; BREAK-UP TIME; BUBBLE; HIGH SPEED IMAGING; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION; STIRRED TANK;

TANKS (CONTAINERS);

EID: 84954452233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15426580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ijcre-2014-0154     Document Type: Article

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