Modelling of a trickle-bed reactor for a catalytic hydrogenation in supercritical CO2

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 52, Issue 21-22, 1997, Pages 4163-4169

  Devetta, Luca ^a   Canu, Paolo ^a   Bertucco, Alberto ^a   Steiner, Kurt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

High pressure; Hydrogenation; Orthogonal collocation; Process simulator; Supercritical CO2; Trickle bed reactor

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CATALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REACTION KINETICS; SOLUBILITY; SOLVENTS; SUBROUTINES; SUBSTRATES;

FIXED BED CATALYTIC REACTORS; ORTHOGONAL COLLOCATION METHOD; TRICKLE BED REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDROGENATION; MODELING; SOLVENT; TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

EID: 0031279353     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(97)00258-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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