“…It is worth recalling that radial temperature profiles were measured for three different bed lengths 27, 47 and 87 cm, respectively. Some of the data for the longest active bed and low superficial liquid mass velocities were not employed in the regression because the radial temperature profiles were almost uniform and close to the heating water temperature T C [17]. The thermo-physical properties of the fluids were evaluated at 40 °C, being this value fully representative of the inlet and exit average temperature for the whole set of experiments.…”