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On The Liquid Flow Distribution In Trickle-Bed Reactors, Rodney O. Fox

Rodney O. Fox

The previous analytical expression for the liquid flow distribution in trickle beds found by maximizing the so-called configurational entropy is reviewed, and a novel derivation is offered, more closely modeling data found in the literature. The novel distribution is an analytical expression describing the liquid flow distribution recently found by employing a Monte Carlo simulation of the very large lattice model (VLLM), thus reducing this computationally time-consuming procedure to a simple equation. The resultant distribution is a function of the total flow rate through the trickle bed, the bed permeability as expressed by the number of open channels through the …