Commercial scale slurry bubble column reactor optimization

WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue , 2008, Pages 275-287

  Strasser, W ^a   Wonders, A ^a  

^a EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Oxidation; pX; Staging; TPA; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE FORMATION; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); FLUID MECHANICS; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; MECHANICS; OXIDATION; TURBULENCE; VAPORS;

CHAOS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) CODES; GAS VELOCITIES; HOLD UP; PRODUCT QUALITIES; PX; REACTION MODELLING; REACTION TIME (RT); REACTOR DESIGNS; SLURRY BUBBLE COLUMN REACTOR (SBCR); STAGING; TPA;

BUBBLE COLUMNS;

EID: 58749101032     PISSN: 17433533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2495/AFM080271     Document Type: Conference Paper

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