Pseudo-adiabatic operation and runaway in tubular reactors

AIChE Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1157-1169

  Wu, Hua ^a,c   Morbidelli, Massimo ^b   Varma, Arvind ^a   Varma, A ^a  

^a Ausimont SpA   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COOLING;

GENERALIZED SENSITIVITY CRITERION; PSEUDO ADIABATIC OPERATION (PAO); THERMAL RUNAWAY; TUBULAR REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EID: 0032074358     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690440513     Document Type: Article

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