Minimizing the entropy production rate of an exothermic reactor with a constant heat-transfer coefficient: The ammonia reaction

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1044-1056

  Nummedal, Lars ^a   Kjelstrup, Signe ^a   Costea, Monica ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; HEAT TRANSFER; MIXTURES; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMMONIA REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; COOLING; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY YIELD; ENTROPY; HEAT TRANSFER; METHODOLOGY; REACTION ANALYSIS; REACTOR; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0037420134     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie020319n     Document Type: Article

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