Multiphase monolith reactors: Chemical reaction engineering of segmented flow in microchannels

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 60, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 5895-5916

  Kreutzer, Michiel T ^a   Kapteijn, Freek ^a   Moulijn, Jacob A ^a   Heiszwolf, Johan J ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Albemarle Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Bretherton's problem; Honeycombs; Microreactors; Monoliths; Segmented flow; Taylor flow

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID MECHANICS; MASS TRANSFER; PRESSURE DROP; REACTION KINETICS;

MULTIPHASE REACTORS; REACTION ENGINEERING; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; TAYLOR FLOW;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; MICROCHANNEL; MONOLITH REACTOR; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

EID: 22744457998     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2005.03.022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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