Thermal regimes in cocurrently cooled fixed-bed reactors for parallel reactions: Application to practical design problems

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1577-1587

  Bucalá, Verónica ^a   Borio, Daniel O ^a   Porras, José A ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

cocurrent coolant flow; Fixed bed reactors; hot spots; parallel reactions; reactor optimization; thermal profiles

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLANTS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

FIXED BED REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EID: 0031150006     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(96)00490-3     Document Type: Article

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