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                                      p G  - Reynolds number for the gas phase, calculated with nominal

                           packing size;


                           m = [0.013-0.088(d p/d c)]Xe u;                                 (119)



                           d c is the column diameter in m; Read and RBM, the Reynolds numbers for the gas
                           and for the liquid phase, are calculated using the packing size d p and L,
                           respectively wg.
                                  The relevance of including the column diameter in equation (119) is
                           doubtful because the hydrodynamics of the column does not depend on its
                           diameter. The column diameter could have some influence on m only at great
                           ratio d/d a but then the equation which takes into account this influence must
                           have a form which eliminates d c with decreasing of the ratio d/d c.
                                  Sater and Levenspiel [118] offered the equation:



                                                                                            (120)


                                  For calculation of the Peclet numbed for the gas phase in random
                           packings, Charpentier and Midoux [330] presented the expression:




                                      °
                           Pe rh=   W  ph   =11.6H'-6.4H t+0.9,                            (121)


                           where the packing hydraulic diameter is defined as:




                                                                                            (
                                                                                                 '

                                                                   3
                                                                2
                           « g is the particle specific surface area in m /m .
                                  Linek et al. [331] proposed the equation:
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