Unsteady state operation of catalytic particles with constant and periodically changing degree of external wetting

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 53, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3129-3142

  Kouris, Ch ^a   Neophytides, St ^b   Vayenas, C G ^a,b   Tsamopoulos, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PULSATILE FLOW; WETTING;

TRICKLE BED REACTORS;

CATALYSTS;

CATALYST;

EID: 0032483590     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(98)00090-6     Document Type: Article

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