Reactive mass transfer at gas-liquid interfaces: Impact of micro-scale fluid dynamics on yield and selectivity of liquid-phase cyclohexane oxidation

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 58, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 3961-3971

  Khinast, Johannes G ^a   Koynov, Athanas A ^a   Leib, Tiberiu M ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bubble column reactor; Bubble dynamics; Cyclohexane oxidation; Reactive flows; Vortex shedding; Yield and selectivity

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CATALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDATION; PHASE INTERFACES; VORTEX SHEDDING;

REACTION RATES;

MASS TRANSFER;

BUBBLY FLOW; FLUID DYNAMICS; GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; VORTEX SHEDDING;

EID: 0141563300     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(03)00311-7     Document Type: Article

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