Design of automotive flow-through catalysts with optimized soot trapping capability

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 934-945

  Ström, Henrik ^a   Sasic, Srdjan ^a   Andersson, Bengt ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Automotive catalyst; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Diesel soot; Gasoline soot; Monolith; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE CATALYSTS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID; DIESEL SOOT; MONOLITH; PARTICULATE MATTER;

CATALYSTS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; DUST; FLUID DYNAMICS; GASOLINE; SOOT;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 78649448264     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.10.026     Document Type: Article

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