Estimation of wetting efficiency in trickle-bed reactors for nonlinear kinetics

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1443-1450

  Mogalicherla, Aswani K ^a   Sharma, Gaurav ^a   Kunzru, Deepak ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BATCH REACTORS; BREEDER REACTORS; CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; ELECTRON TUBE DIODES; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LIQUIDS; REACTION KINETICS;

BATCH SLURRY REACTORS; CATALYST PARTICLES; EFFECTIVENESS FACTORS; LIQUID SUPERFICIAL VELOCITIES; LIQUID ZONES; METHYLSTYRENE; NON-LINEAR KINETICS; POWER-LAW KINETICS; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; SUPERFICIAL VELOCITIES; TRICKLE-BED REACTORS;

WETTING;

EID: 61549118410     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie801305t     Document Type: Article

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