Geometry effects on ignition min catalytic monolith

AIChE Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1493-1509

  Ramanathan, Karthik ^a   Balakotaiah, Vemuri ^a   West, David H ^b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalytic converter; Heat transfer coefficient; Ignition; Light off; Monolith reactor

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; DIFFUSION; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT CONVECTION; IGNITION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REACTION KINETICS;

CATALYTIC MONOLITH; CONSTANT FLUX; CONSTANT WALL TEMPERATURE; MONOLITH ASPECT RATIO;

LAMINAR FLOW;

CATALYTIC CONVERTER; GEOMETRICAL EFFECT; IGNITION; REACTOR;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CATALYST; CONDUCTANCE; CONVECTION DIFFUSION EQUATION; DIFFUSION; GEOMETRY; IGNITION; LAMINAR FLOW; MASS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONOLITH REACTOR; NUSSELT SHERWOOD NUMBER; PREDICTION; REACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 3042723132     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10120     Document Type: Article

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