Modeling a silicon CVD spouted bed pilot plant reactor

International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-21

  Piña, Juliana ^a   Bucalá, Veronica ^a   Schbib, Nocmí Susana ^a   Ege, Paul ^b   De Lasa, Hugo Ignacio ^c  

^a Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^b REC Silicon Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Granulation; Modeling; Silicon CVD; Spouted bed

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; GRANULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SILICON;

SILICON CVD; SPOUTED BED;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EID: 33645017928     PISSN: 21945748     EISSN: 15426580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1542-6580.1306     Document Type: Article

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