Thermal and mass transients in the developing region of a homogeneous tubular chemical reactor

AIChE Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 749-755

  Alkam, Mohammad K ^a   Darwish, Feras H ^a   Almuhtasib, Aziz A ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Homogeneous; Numerical; Reactor; Tubular; Unsteady

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING REGIONS; ENTRANCE REGION; FINITE DIFFERENCE SIMULATIONS; FLOW DEVELOPMENT; FLOW HYDRODYNAMICS; LAMINAR FLOW CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL REACTORS; OPERATING CONDITION; ORDER OF REACTION; REACTANT CONCENTRATIONS; REACTION PARAMETERS; SCHMIDT NUMBERS; SPECIES CONCENTRATION; TEMPERATURE FIELD; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TUBULAR REACTORS; UNSTEADY OPERATIONS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS; LAMINAR FLOW;

TRANSIENTS;

EID: 76749116270     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12023     Document Type: Article

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