A trickle-bed reactor model for hydrogenation of 2,4 dinitrotoluene: Experimental verification

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 787-805

  Rajashekharam, Malyala V ^a   Jaganathan, Rengaswamy ^a   Chaudhari, Raghunath V ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Hydrogenation; Trickle bed reactor

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; HYDROGENATION; HYSTERESIS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WETTING;

DINITROTOULENE; TRICKLE BED REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

HYDROGENATION; MODEL; TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

EID: 0032005264     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(97)00366-7     Document Type: Article

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