A highway in state space for reactors with minimum entropy production

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3347-3361

  Johannessen, Eivind ^a   Kjelstrup, Signe ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chemical reactors; Entropy production minimisation; Highway in state space

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PRESSURE DROP; PROBLEM SOLVING; THERMODYNAMICS;

BATCH REACTORS; ENTROPY PRODUCTION; PLUG FLOW REACTORS; THERMODYNAMIC DRIVING FORCES;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

ENTROPY;

EID: 17544375369     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2005.01.026     Document Type: Article

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