Pressure drop measurements and modeling on SiC foams

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3259-3267

  Lacroix, Maxime ^a   Nguyen, Patrick ^b   Schweich, Daniel ^c   Pham Huu, Cuong ^a   Savin Poncet, Sabine ^d   Edouard, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b Sicat Technical Center   (France)

^c CPE LYON   (France)

^d CSTJF   (France)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Cubic lattice model; Ergun equation; Foam; Pressure drop; Silicon carbide

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRESSURE DROP; SILICON CARBIDE;

CATALYTIC SUPPORT; CUBIC LATTICE MODEL; ERGUN EQUATION;

FOAMS;

CATALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FOAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRESSURE DROP; SILICON CARBIDE;

EID: 34248143424     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2007.03.027     Document Type: Article

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