Modeling and experimental verification of a flat-plate solar photoreactor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3592-3601

  Rossetti, Germán H ^a   Albizzati, Enrique D ^a   Alfano, Orlando M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOLYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; SOLAR RADIATION;

SOLAR PHOTOREACTORS; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; URANYL OXALATE ACTINOMETER;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EID: 0032166790     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9709188     Document Type: Article

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