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Some results of an experimental study of liquid film flow over the surface of a structured packing with a new design for heat and mass exchangers were presented. The influence of the irrigation density on the overflow of liquid from one side of a packing element to the other side was studied. The overflow of liquid from one side of a packing element to the other side was shown to occur abruptly upon attaining a certain irrigation density. A dimensionless quantity, namely, the overflow number, was proposed for estimating uniformity in the distribution of a liquid film over a structured perforated packing bed.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Gorodilov, M.G. Berengarten, A.S. Pushnov, 2016, published in Teoreticheskie Osnovy Khimicheskoi Tekhnologii, 2016, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 334–343.
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Gorodilov, A.A., Berengarten, M.G. & Pushnov, A.S. Features of fluid film falling on the corrugated surface of structured packings with perforations. Theor Found Chem Eng 50, 325–334 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040579516030040
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