Mh. Aldahhan et al., PREDICTION OF PRESSURE-DROP AND LIQUID HOLDUP IN HIGH-PRESSURE TRICKLE-BED REACTORS, Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 37(3), 1998, pp. 793-798
The Holub et al. (1992, 1993) phenomenological model for pressure drop
and liquid holdup in trickle flow regime at atmospheric pressure was
noted by Al-Dahhan and Dudukovic (1994) to systematically underpredict
pressure drop at high pressure and high gas flow rates. In this study
, the Holub et al. (1992, 1993) model has been extended to account for
the interaction between the gas and liquid phases by incorporating th
e velocity and the shear slip factors between the phases. As a result,
the prediction of pressure drop at the operating conditions of indust
rial interest (high pressure) has been improved noticeably without any
significant loss in predictability of liquid holdup. The extended mod
el and the comparison between its prediction and experimental high pre
ssure and high gas flow rate data are presented and discussed.