Gas-liquid catalytic hydrogenation reaction in small catalyst channel

AIChE Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2285-2297

  Liu, Wei ^a   Roy, Shantanu ^a,b   Fu, Xiaodong ^a  

^a Science and Technology Division ^*  (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Flow regime; Gas liquid; microreactor; Hydrodynamics; Hydrogenation; Mass transfer; Minireactor; Monolith catalyst; Monolith reactor; Multiphase reaction; Structured cata lyst; Structured reactor

Indexed keywords

GAS/LIQUID, MICROREACTORS; MINIREACTOR; MULTIPHASE REACTION; STRUCTURED CATALYST; STRUCTURED REACTOR;

CATALYSTS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MASS TRANSFER; OLEFINS; RATE CONSTANTS; REACTION KINETICS;

HYDROGENATION;

CATALYST; CHANNEL FLOW; GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGENATION;

EID: 24944556676     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10547     Document Type: Article

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