Modeling and scale-up of mixing- and temperature-sensitive chemical reactions

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 5325-5341

  Patterson, Gary ^a  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX CHEMICAL REACTIONS; EXOTHERMIC REACTIONS; MIXED REACTORS; MIXING EFFECTS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIXING; REACTION KINETICS; THERMAL EFFECTS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CHEMICAL REACTIONS;

CHEMICAL REACTION;

EID: 22944462066     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie049161s     Document Type: Review

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