Scale-up and modeling of fixed-bed reactors for catalytic phenol oxidation over adsorptive active carbon

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 9513-9523

  Suwanprasop, Somsaluay ^a   Eftaxias, Athanasios ^b   Stüber, Frank ^b   Polaert, Isabelle ^a   Julcour Lebigue, Carine ^a   Delmas, Henri ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉNIE CHIMIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CARBON; CATALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; OXIDATION; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PHENOLS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CATALYTIC PHENOL OXIDATION; FIXED-BED REACTORS; FLOW DIRECTIONS; GAS-LIQUID HYDRODYNAMICS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; FIXED BED; OXIDATION; PHENOL;

EID: 29544439745     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie050242d     Document Type: Conference Paper

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