Bifurcation Analysis of Catalytic Monoliths with Nonuniform Catalyst Loading

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 288-303

  Ramanathan, Karthik ^a   Balakotaiah, Vemuri ^a   West, David H ^b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER;

BIFURCATION ANALYSIS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

BIFURCATION; CATALYST; HEAT TRANSFER; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CONDUCTANCE; DIFFUSION; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0347128032     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie030124v     Document Type: Article

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