A comparison between two kinds of hydrodynamic models in bubble column slurry reactor during Fischer-Tropsch synthesis: Single-bubble class and two-bubble class

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1582-1588

  Ghasemi, Samira ^a   Sohrabi, Morteza ^a,b   Rahmani, Mohammad ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b IR Academy of Sciences   (Iran)

Author keywords

Axial dispersion; Fischer Tropsch synthesis; Single bubble class; Slurry bubble column; Two bubble class

Indexed keywords

AXIAL DISPERSION; AXIAL DISPERSIONS; BUBBLE COLUMN SLURRY REACTOR; CLASS MODELS; DETAILED KINETICS; GAS LIQUIDS; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MULTICOMPONENTS; OPERATION CONDITIONS; REACTOR MODELS; RECIRCULATIONS; SIMULATION RESULT; SLURRY BUBBLE COLUMN; SLURRY BUBBLE COLUMN REACTORS; VAPOUR-LIQUID EQUILIBRIUM; WATER GAS SHIFT REACTIONS;

BUBBLE COLUMNS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHEMICAL SHIFT; DISPERSIONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUIDS; OLEFINS; PARAFFINS; SIMULATORS; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 71549166994     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2009.04.015     Document Type: Article

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