High-Pressure Trickle-Bed Reactors: A Review

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 3292-3314

  Al Dahhan, Muthanna H ^a   Larachi, Faical ^b   Dudukovic, Milorad P ^a   Laurent, Andre ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE INTERFACES; PRESSURE DROP; REACTION KINETICS; WETTING;

HIGH PRESSURE TRICKLE BED REACTORS; LIQUID HOLD UP; MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EID: 0031200168     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9700829     Document Type: Article

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