Operational and Structural Nonidealities in Modeling and Design of Multitubular Catalytic Reactors

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 3140-3148

  Cybulski, Andrzej ^a   Eigenberger, Gerhart ^b   Stankiewicz, Andrzej ^c  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c DSM RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLANTS; FLOW PATTERNS; HEAT TRANSFER; MACHINE DESIGN; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKED BEDS; POROSITY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

MULTITUBULAR CATALYTIC REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EID: 0031199958     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie960596s     Document Type: Article

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