Liquid back-mixing and mass transfer effects in trickle-bed reactors filled with porous catalyst particles

Chemical Engineering and Processing

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 365-371

  Nigam, Krishana D P ^a   Iliuta, Ion ^b   Larachi, Faïçal ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Axial dispersion; Mass transfer; Trickle bed reactor

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; DIFFUSION; DISPERSIONS; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING; POROUS MATERIALS; RADIOISOTOPES; TRACE ANALYSIS;

TRICKLE-BED REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

CATALYST; LIQUID-LIQUID MIXING; MASS TRANSFER; POROUS MEDIUM; TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

EID: 67049159568     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0255-2701(01)00157-X     Document Type: Article

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