Design and scale-up of chemical reactors for nanoparticle precipitation

AIChE Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1877-1887

  Marchisio, Daniele L ^a   Rivautella, Liliana ^a   Barresi, Antonello A ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Barium sulfate; CFD; Confined impinging jet reactor; Modeling; Nanoparticles; Precipitation; Scale up

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TURBULENCE;

BARIUM SULFATE; CONFINED IMPINGING JET REACTOR; MODELING; NANOPARTICLES; SCALE-UP;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

AGGLOMERATION; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TURBULENCE;

EID: 33646360561     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10786     Document Type: Article

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