Residence time, mass transfer and back-mixing of the liquid in trickle flow reactors containing porous particles

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 4099-4109

  Iliuta, I ^a   Larachi, F ^b   Grandjean, B P A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Axial dispersion; Mass transfer; Trickle bed reactor

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; DISPERSIONS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; INTERDIFFUSION (SOLIDS); MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; WETTING;

AXIAL DISPERSION; CARBOXYMETHYL CELLULOSE CONCENTRATION; PECLET NUMBER; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

MASS TRANSFER; RESIDENCE TIME; TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

EID: 0033199546     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(99)00120-7     Document Type: Article

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