Gas-liquid mass transfer in a slurry reactor operating under olefinic polymerization process conditions

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 549-559

  Li, J ^a   Tekie, Z ^a   Mizan, T I ^a   Morsi, B I ^a   Maier, E E ^b   Singh, C P P ^b  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b Aristech Chemical Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; ETHYLENE; GAS ABSORPTION; GASES; HYDROGEN; LIQUIDS; POLYMERIZATION; PROPYLENE; SLURRIES; SOLUBILITY; VISCOSITY;

HEXANE; MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; OLEFINIC POLYMERIZATION; SLURRY REACTOR; SOLID CONCENTRATIONS;

MASS TRANSFER;

MASS TRANSFER; POLYMERIZATION; REACTORS; SLURRY;

EID: 0030072177     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(95)00272-3     Document Type: Article

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