Effects of microreactor geometry on performance: Differences between posted reactors and channel reactors

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4267-4271

  Ni, Zheng ^a   Seebauer, E G ^a   Masel, Richard I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DECOMPOSITION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HYDROGEN; LAMINAR FLOW;

CHANNEL MICROREACTORS; MICROREACTORS; OPTIMAL REACTOR; PLUG FLOW;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

EID: 20444397450     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie048956w     Document Type: Article

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