Journal of Materials

Review Article

A Reconciliation of Packed Column Permeability Data: Deconvoluting the Ergun Papers

Table 1


Column number		A	A	A	A	A	A	A	B	B	B	B	B	B	B	C	C	C	C	C	C	C

		Reported
	cm	14.05	14.05	14.05	14.05	14.05	14.05	14.05	23.56	23.56	23.56	23.56	23.56	23.56	23.56	8.46	8.46	8.46	8.46	8.46	8.46	8.46
	g	500	500	500	500	500	500	500	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	300	300	300	300	300	300	300
	g⁻¹cm²	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	42	42	42	42	42	42	42	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
	gcm⁻³	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.8	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.8
	gcm⁻³	7.025	7.025	7.025	7.025	7.025	7.025	7.025	1.676	1.676	1.676	1.676	1.676	1.676	1.676	6.999	6.999	6.999	6.999	6.999	6.999	6.999
	none	0.350	0.350	0.350	0.350	0.350	0.350	0.350	0.330	0.330	0.330	0.330	0.330	0.330	0.330	0.352	0.352	0.352	0.352	0.352	0.352	0.352
	cm	0.050	0.050	0.050	0.050	0.050	0.050	0.050	0.057	0.057	0.057	0.057	0.057	0.057	0.057	0.056	0.056	0.056	0.056	0.056	0.056	0.056
	C⁰	0	0	5	11	15	22	28	0	3	10	18	27	38	49	0		0	2	5	8	11
Sutherland	gcm⁻¹sec⁻¹	1.66E − 04							1.66E − 04							1.66E − 04
	cm³sec⁻¹	5	50	100	160	200	250	300	5	50	100	150	200	250	300	5	50	100	150	200	250	300
	gsec⁻¹cm⁻²	*0.002*	0.012	0.025	0.040	0.049	0.062	0.074	*0.002*	0.012	0.025	0.037	0.049	0.062	0.074	*0.002*	0.012	0.025	0.037	0.049	0.062	0.074
	cmsec⁻¹	1.00	9.86	19.73	31.63	39.45	49.32	59.18	1.00	9.86	19.73	29.59	39.45	49.32	59.18	1.00	9.86	19.73	29.59	39.45	49.32	59.18
	gcm⁻¹sec⁻²	1,359	14,351	30,805	53,467	70,022	92,784	117,650	2,140	22,852	49,576	80,172	114,640	152,981	195,194	581	6,223	13,548	21,974	31,503	42,134	53,867
	gsec⁻¹cm⁻³	97	104	111	120	126	134	142	91	98	107	115	123	132	140	69	75	81	88	94	101	108
	none	1.00	5.69	11.42	18.40	23.03	28.92	34.86	1.00	6.34	12.76	19.27	25.87	32.57	39.36	1.00	6.44	12.90	19.390	25.9	32.46	39.05
	g/cm⁻³	2.17E − 03							1.95E − 03							1.91E − 03
	g/cm⁻³	2.17E − 03							1.95E − 03							1.91E − 03
	g/cm⁻³
	g⁻¹cm⁵	2338	4057	4057	4057	4057	4057	4057	2603	4057	4057	4056	4056	4055	4054	2652	4057	4057	4057	4057	4057	4057
	none	145	145	145	146	146	147	148	141	141	142	143	144	145	146	134	134	135	135	135	135	136
	none	1.16	2.01	2.01	2.01	2.01	2.01	2.01	1.32	2.06	2.06	2.06	2.06	2.06	2.06	1.32	2.03	2.03	2.03	2.03	2.03	2.03
	none	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.1	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	1.9	1.9	1.9	1.9	1.9	1.9	1.9
	none	1.5	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.7	1.8	2.8	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.7	1.8	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.7
	g²cm⁻⁶	0.80							0.31							0.90
	none	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.33	0.33	0.33	0.33	0.33	0.33	0.33	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35
	none	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	none	51	51	51	51	51	51	52	47	47	47	47	48	48	48	47	47	47	47	48	48	48
	none	146	156	168	183	193	205	218	142	154	169	183	197	212	227	136	147	161	174	188	201	215

		Corrected
	cm	15.34	15.34	15.34	15.34	15.34	15.34	15.34	25.68	25.68	25.68	25.68	25.68	25.68	25.68	9.35	9.35	9.35	9.35	9.35	9.35	9.35
	g	500	500	500	500	500	500	500	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	300	300	300	300	300	300	300
	g⁻¹cm²	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	42	42	42	42	42	42	42	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
	gcm⁻³	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.8	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.8	10.8
	gcm⁻³	6.431	6.431	6.431	6.431	6.431	6.431	6.431	1.537	1.537	1.537	1.537	1.537	1.537	1.537	6.331	6.331	6.331	6.331	6.331	6.331	6.331
	none	0.404	0.404	0.404	0.404	0.404	0.404	0.404	0.385	0.385	0.385	0.385	0.385	0.385	0.385	0.414	0.414	0.414	0.414	0.414	0.414	0.414
	cm	0.050	0.050	0.050	0.050	0.050	0.050	0.050	0.057	0.057	0.057	0.057	0.057	0.057	0.057	0.056	0.056	0.056	0.056	0.056	0.056	0.056
	C⁰	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sutherland	gcm⁻¹sec⁻¹	1.66E − 04							1.66E − 04							1.66E − 04
	cm³sec⁻¹	5	46	92	147	183	229	275	5	46	92	138	184	229	276	5	45	90	136	181	226	272
	gsec⁻¹cm⁻²	*0.002*	0.011	0.023	0.038	0.048	0.061	0.075	*0.002*	0.011	0.023	0.036	0.050	0.064	0.080	*0.002*	0.011	0.022	0.034	0.045	0.057	0.070
	cmsec⁻¹	1.00	9.03	18.06	28.96	36.13	45.17	54.21	1.00	9.05	18.09	27.15	36.21	45.14	54.35	1.00	8.92	17.84	26.77	35.70	44.64	53.6
	gcm⁻¹sec⁻²	1,484	14,259	30,448	52,557	68,614	90,597	114,522	2,333	22,686	48,925	78,746	112,132	148,538	189,725	642	6,166	13,331	21,499	30,673	40,849	52,055
	gsec⁻¹cm⁻³	97	103	110	118	124	131	138	91	98	105	113	121	128	136	69	74	80	86	92	98	104
	none	1.00	5.69	11.56	18.94	23.98	30.60	37.53	1.00	6.39	13.11	20.22	27.81	35.80	44.66	1.00	6.40	12.90	19.51	26.25	33.15	40.23
	g/cm⁻³	1.99E − 03							1.79E − 03							1.73E − 03
	g/cm⁻³	1.99E − 03							1.79E − 03							1.73E − 03
	g/cm⁻³
	g⁻¹cm⁵	2553	4052	3988	3904	3845	3768	3687	2838	4018	3918	3809	3695	3578	3454	2932	4084	4055	4023	3987	3948	3906
	none	267	267	267	267	267	267	267	267	267	267	267	267	267	267	267	267	267	267	267	267	267
	none	2.14	3.40	3.34	3.27	3.22	3.16	3.09	2.51	3.55	3.46	3.36	3.26	3.16	3.05	2.63	3.66	3.64	3.61	3.58	3.54	3.50
	none	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7	3.7
	none	2.9	4.5	4.5	4.4	4.3	4.2	4.1	3.3	4.7	4.6	4.5	4.4	4.2	4.1	3.5	4.9	4.8	4.8	4.8	4.7	4.7
	g²cm⁻⁶	0.76							0.30							0.84
	none	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.39	0.39	0.39	0.39	0.39	0.39	0.39	0.41	0.41	0.41	0.41	0.41	0.41	0.41
	none	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	none	108	108	108	108	108	108	108	103	103	103	103	103	103	103	110	110	110	110	110	110	110
	none	269	286	306	329	344	364	383	270	290	312	335	358	380	403	270	290	314	337	361	384	408