Gas and Liquid Distribution in the Monolith Film Flow Reactor

AIChE Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3007-3017

  Heibel, Achim K ^a   Vergeldt, Frank J ^b   Van As, Henk ^b   Kapteijn, Freek ^c   Moulijn, Jacob ^c   Boger, Thorsten ^a  

^a Corning Environmental Technologies ^*  (United States)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NOZZLES; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

LIQUID DISTRIBUTION;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

FLUID FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; REACTOR;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; FILM; GAS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REACTOR;

EID: 0346887213     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690491203     Document Type: Article

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