Transverse concentration and temperature nonuniformities in adiabatic packed-bed catalytic reactors

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1725-1734

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

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic reactor; Catalytic reactor; Langumuir Hinshelwood kinetics; Packed bed reactor; Psuedohomogeneous model; Transverse patterns

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDATION; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; REACTION KINETICS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ADIABATIC PACKED BED CATALYTIC REACTORS; LANGMUIR-HINSHELWOOD KINETICS; TRANSVERSE CONCENTRATION;

PACKED BEDS;

CATALYST; INSTABILITY; PACKED BED; REACTOR; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033150625     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(99)00013-5     Document Type: Article

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