Design and testing of small-scale unsteady-state afterburners and reactors

AIChE Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1654-1664

  Fissore, Davide ^a   Barresi, Antonello A ^a   Baldi, Giancarlo ^a   Hevia, Miguel A G ^b   Ordóñez, Salvador ^b   Dí'ez, Fernando V ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adiabatic reactor; Autothermal combustion; Bench scale reactor; Reverse flow reactor; Temperature control

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; HEAT LOSSES; METHANE; PRODUCT DESIGN; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

ADIABATIC OPERATIONS; RADIAL HEAT LOSSES; TEMPERATURE-CONTROL SYSTEMS; THERMAL LOSSES;

AFTERBURNERS (ENGINE);

COMBUSTION;

EID: 21144441002     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10430     Document Type: Article

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