Modeling of gas-liquid packed-bed reactors with momentum equations and local interaction closures

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 8189-8198

  Alopaeus, Ville ^a,b   Hynynen, Katja ^a   Aittamaa, Juhani ^a   Manninen, Mikko ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DIFFERENTIAL COUNTERPART; HIGH-PRESSURE OPERATIONS; OPERATING CONDITIONS;

PACKED BEDS;

ALGEBRA; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKED BEDS;

EID: 33845301686     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0606338     Document Type: Article

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