Just because It's small doesn't mean it's well mixed: Ensuring good mixing in mesoscale reactors

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 9695-9704

  Hall, J F ^a,b   Barigou, M ^a   Simmons, M J H ^a   Stitt, E H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNSON MATTHEY CATALYSTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SCREENING; THROUGHPUT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY;

CATALYST FORMULATIONS; ECCENTRIC AGITATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTATION (HTE); PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV);

CATALYSTS;

MESOSCALE MODEL; MIXING; REACTOR;

EID: 29544440177     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie050224w     Document Type: Conference Paper

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