Trickle-bed reactors: Porosity-induced hysteresis

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6406-6413

  Maiti, Rabindranath ^a   Khanna, Rajesh ^a   Nigam, K D P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS;

DATA BANK; POROUS PACKINGS; TRICKLEBED REACTORS (TBR);

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

EID: 22744440028     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie049347r     Document Type: Article

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