Multicomponent flow-transport-reaction modeling of trickle bed reactors: Application to unsteady state liquid flow modulation

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6354-6370

  Khadilkar, M R ^a,b   Al Dahhan, M H ^a   Dudukovic M P ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b GE Plastics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID FLOW MODULATION; MULTICOMPONENT FLOW-TRANSPORT-REACTION MODELING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL REACTORS; TRICKLE BED REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

EID: 23844461625     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0402261     Document Type: Article

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