Comparative study of different mixing strategies in small high throughput experimentation reactors

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 60, Issue 8-9 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 2355-2368

  Hall, J F ^a   Barigou, M ^a   Simmons, M J H ^a   Stitt, E H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNSON MATTHEY CATALYSTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical reactors; Fluid mechanics; High throughput screening; Mixing; PIV; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

CONTAINERS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ESTIMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUORESCENCE; IMPELLERS; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ECCENTRIC AGITATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTATION (HTE) REACTORS; IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS;

FLUID MECHANICS; MIXING; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETER; TURBULENCE;

EID: 14544296150     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2004.10.045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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