Trickle-bed reactors: state of art and perspectives

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 47, Issue 13-14, 1992, Pages 3197-3213

  Gianetto, A ^a   Specchia, V ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

catalyst wetting and efficiency; high pressure; hydrodynamics; multiphase mass and heat transfer; trickle bed reactor

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CATALYST WETTING; FLUID SOLID CONTACTING; TRICKLE BED REACTORS; WETTING EFFICIENCY;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

TRICKLE BED REACTORS;

EID: 0026918514     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(92)85029-B     Document Type: Article

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