Simulation of the transient and steady state behaviour of a bubble column slurry reactor for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis

Chemical Engineering and Processing

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 35-47

  De Swart, J W A ^a   Krishna, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bubble column slurry reactor; Fischer Tropsch synthesis; Steady state behaviour

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; SLURRIES;

LIQUID PHASE;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

BUBBLE COLUMN; REACTOR; SLURRY; STEADY FLOW; TRANSIENT FLOW;

EID: 0035981270     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0255-2701(00)00159-8     Document Type: Article

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