Performance of the wide-ranging models for fluidized bed reactors

Advanced Powder Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 533-548

  Jafari, Rouzbeh ^a   Sotudeh Gharebagh, Rahmat ^a   Mostoufi, Navid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fluidization; Hydrodynamics; Multiphase reactors; Reactor modelling; Turbulent fluidization

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CATALYSIS; EMULSIONS; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; TURBULENCE;

FLUIDIZED BED REACTORS; MULTIPHASE REACTORS; REACTION RATES; TURBULENT FLUIDIZATION;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EID: 6344256401     PISSN: 09218831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568552042000192     Document Type: Article

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