Scaled-out multilayer gas-liquid microreactor with integrated velocimetry sensors

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 8997-9013

  De Mas, Nuria ^a   Günther, Axel ^a   Kraus, Tobias ^a,b   Schmidt, Martin A ^a   Jensen, Klavs F ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW DISTRIBUTION; REACTION CHANNELS; SILICON-BASED MICROREACTORS;

FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTAKE SYSTEMS; LASER PULSES; MICROSENSORS; MULTILAYERS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SILICON; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

VELOCIMETRY;

EID: 29144523559     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie050472s     Document Type: Article

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