Foam factionation: Principles and process design

Foam Fractionation: Principles and Process Design

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-187

  Stevenson, Paul ^a,b   Li, Xueliang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b Chinese University of Petroleum Beijing   (China)

^c HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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