Heat transfer and temperature profiles in flow-through catalytic membrane reactors

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 155, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 371-379

  Westermann, Thomas ^a   Kretzschmar, Eva ^a   Pitsch, Fee ^a   Melin, Thomas ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catalyst support; Heat transfer; Membranes; Microstructure; Reaction engineering

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC MEMBRANE REACTORS; ETHENE HYDROGENATION; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FLOWTHROUGH; GAS-PHASE REACTIONS; HEAT TRANSFER MECHANISM; HEAT TRANSFER MODEL; MASS AND ENERGY BALANCE; MEMBRANE PORES; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MEMBRANE TEMPERATURE; MICROSTRUCTURED CATALYSTS; MODEL REACTIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL REACTORS; OPERATING CONDITION; POROUS MEMBRANES; REACTION ENGINEERING; REACTOR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

BIOREACTORS; CATALYSIS; ETHYLENE; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROGENATION; MEMBRANES; MICROSTRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

CATALYST SUPPORTS;

EID: 74249090833     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2009.07.059     Document Type: Article

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