Performance Improvements of Parallel-Series Reactions in Tubular Reactors Using Reactant Dosing Concepts

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 969-979

  Thomas, Sascha ^a   Pushpavanam, Subramaniam ^b   Seidel Morgenstern, Andreas ^a,c  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX TECHNICAL SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; MEMBRANES; NUMERICAL METHODS; REACTION KINETICS;

MEMBRANE REACTORS; PARALLEL-SERIES REACTIONS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

DOSING PUMP;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MEMBRANE REACTOR; REACTION ANALYSIS; REACTION OPTIMIZATION; TUBULAR REACTOR;

EID: 1042266684     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie020878u     Document Type: Article

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