Effect of fines and porous catalyst on hydrodynamics of trickle bed reactors

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 9497-9501

  Kulkarni, Ranjit R ^a   Wood, Joseph ^a   Winterbottom, John M ^a   Stitt, E Hugh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNSON MATTHEY CATALYSTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; DISPERSIONS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; WETTING;

LIQUID DISTRIBUTION; POROUS CATALYSTS; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION (RTD); TRICKLE BED REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

CATALYST; FINES; HYDRODYNAMICS; TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

EID: 29544442213     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie050237+     Document Type: Conference Paper

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