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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors would like to thank Interbrew Belgium, for
the loan of an Alpha M.O.S. instrument, and the Québec-
Wallonie Cooperation Agency. G. Hudon would also like
to thank the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council of Canada and the Agence Universitaire de la
Francophonie for their financial support.
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Guillaume Hudon is a graduate student in the Chemical
Engineering Department at Ecole Polytechnique,
Montréal, Québec, Canada. Dr. Christophe Guy (corre-
sponding author) is a professor and head of the Chemi-
cal Engineering Department at Ecole Polytechnique. Dr.
Jacques Hermia is a professor and head of the Unité des
Procédés at the Université Catholique de Louvain in
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Dr. Guy may be reached at
phone: 514-340-4711, ext. 4818; fax: 514-340-4159;
e-mail: Christophe.Guy@mail.polymtl.ca.
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