Design of a silicon-based microscale trickle-bed system for singlet-oxygen production

AIChE Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2441-2455

  Wilhite, Benjamin A ^a,c   Jensen, Klavs F ^a   Hill, Tyrone F ^b   Velásquez García, Luis Fernando ^a   Epstein, Alan H ^a   Livermore, Carol ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas liquid reactor; Microreactor; Singlet oxygen; Trickle bed

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; BASIC HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; CHLORINE GASES; DESIGN EQUATIONS; DESIGN METHODOLOGIES; FLOW CHARACTERIZATION; FLOW MAPS; FLOW REGIMES; GAS-LIQUID REACTOR; MACRO SCALES; MICRO SCALES; MICRO-DEVICES; MICROREACTOR; ON-CHIP COOLING; OXYGEN PRODUCTION; REACTOR MODELLING; SILICON-BASED; SINGLET OXYGEN PRODUCTION; SINGLET-OXYGEN; TRICKLE-BED; TRICKLE-BED REACTOR; UNIFORM PHASE;

CHLORINE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FLOW OF WATER; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FORECASTING; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MAPS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NONMETALS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; OXYGEN; PHASE SEPARATION; RATE CONSTANTS; SEPARATION; SILICON; SOLUTIONS;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 52649119836     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11564     Document Type: Article

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