Runaway Limits for Adiabatic Packed-Bed Catalytic Reactors

AIChE Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 394-404

  Christoforatou, Evangelia L ^a   Balakotaiah, Vemuri ^a   West, David H ^b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CATALYSIS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKED BEDS; PHASE INTERFACES; REACTION KINETICS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CRITICAL RESIDENCE TIME; THIELE MODULUS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

CATALYST; HEAT TRANSFER; PACKED BED; RESIDENCE TIME;

EID: 0032007376     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690440216     Document Type: Article

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