Cyclic Operation Strategies in Trickle Beds and Electrical Capacitance Tomography Imaging of Filtration Dynamics

• Published in: Industrial & engineering chemistry research Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 934 - 952
• Main Authors: Hamidipour, Mohsen, Larachi, Faïçal, Ring, Zbigniew
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Chemical Society 03.02.2010
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Chemical engineering; Exact sciences and technology; Filtration; Kinetics, Catalysis, and Reaction Engineering; Liquid-liquid and fluid-solid mechanical separations; Tomography; Capacitance; Filtration; Imaging

The dynamics of propagating liquid pulsations generated via various cyclic operation strategies in trickle beds was monitored through electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) for gas and liquid superficial velocities in the range of trickle flow regime. The characteristics of ON−OFF liquid, ON−OFF ga...