Shape normalization for catalytic monoliths

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 59, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 3737-3766

  Bhattacharya, Madhuchhanda ^a   Harold, Michael P ^a   Balakotaiah, Vemuri ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Diffusion convection reaction; Laminar flow; Monolithic reactor; Reaction engineering; Shape normalization

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CURVE FITTING; DIFFUSION; MASS TRANSFER; REACTION KINETICS;

COUPLED CONVECTION; FLUID PHASES; VELOCITY PROFILES;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

CATALYSIS; DIFFUSION-CONVECTION THEORY; LAMINAR FLOW; MONOLITH REACTOR;

EID: 4143110098     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2004.02.020     Document Type: Article

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