Fluid dynamics and scale-up of bubble columns with internals

........................................................................................................................................ iii Acknowledgments ...................................................................................................................... v List of Tables ............................................................................................................................ xiii List of Figures .......................................................................................................................... xiv Nomenclature ......................................................................................................................... xviii List of Abbreviations ............................................................................................................ xxiii

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