Light-off location and front diffusion in a catalytic monolith reactor

AIChE Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1860-1873

  Ramanathan, Karthik ^a   Gopinath, Ashok ^a  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Automobile emissions; Catalytic monolith reactor; Exhaust gas aftertreatment; Light off location; Spread of the light off front

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; TWO PHASE FLOW;

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS (AICHE); ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CATALYTIC MONOLITH REACTORS; DESIGN GUIDELINES; DESIGN VARIABLES; HEAT DIFFUSIONS; HEATS OF REACTION; KINETIC (POLYM.); LIGHT-OFF; LIGHT-OFF BEHAVIOR; MONOLITH REACTORS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; REACTOR SYSTEMS; SOLID SUBSTRATE (SS); THREE WAY CATALYST (TWC);

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 47549101920     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11517     Document Type: Article

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