On the quantification of the controlling regimes in automotive catalytic converters

AIChE Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 218-226

  Santos, H ^a   Costa, M ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Chemical reaction; Controlling regimes; External mass transfer; Internal mass transfer; Overall and individual resistances

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; AUTOMOTIVE CATALYTIC CONVERTERS; CELL DENSITY; CHEMICAL PROCESS; COMPLEX PROCESSES; CONTROLLING REGIMES; CONVERTER DESIGN; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXTERNAL MASS TRANSFER; FLOW DYNAMICS; FLOWTHROUGH; HETEROGENEOUS SURFACE REACTION; HIGH OPERATING TEMPERATURE; IGNITION TEMPERATURES; INTERNAL MASS TRANSFER; LIMITING PROCESS; MASS TRANSPORT; OPERATING CONDITION; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; OVERALL AND INDIVIDUAL RESISTANCES; REACTION RESISTANCE; SOLID PHASIS; THREE WAY CATALYSTS; TOTAL RESISTANCE; TRANSPORT PHENOMENA; WASHCOATS;

CATALYTIC CONVERTERS; EXHAUST GASES; MASS TRANSFER; SURFACE REACTIONS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CHEMICAL RESISTANCE;

EID: 78650051178     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12252     Document Type: Article

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