Improving flooding performance for countercurrent monolith reactors

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 4848-4855

  Heibel, Achim K ^a   Jamison, Joshua A ^a   Woehl, Pierre ^a   Kapteijn, Freek ^b   Moulijn, Jacob A ^b  

^a Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CHANNEL FLOW; DATA REDUCTION; SURFACE TENSION; WATER;

CHANNEL SIZE; FLOODING LIMITS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

DECANE; WATER;

FLOOD; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REACTOR;

AIR; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COUNTERCURRENT MONOLITH REACTOR; DENSITY; EVALUATION; FILM; GEOMETRY; GRAVITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; PERFORMANCE; REACTOR; SCALE UP; SURFACE TENSION; THICKNESS; TUBE;

EID: 3543038816     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie034289f     Document Type: Article

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