Sonochemical reactors: Important design and scale up considerations with a special emphasis on heterogeneous systems

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1066-1082

  Gogate, Parag R ^a   Sutkar, Vinayak S ^a   Pandit, Aniruddha B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Acoustic cavitation; Design aspects; Heterogeneous systems; Optimum operating parameters; Scale up aspects; Sonochemical reactors

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CAVITATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; OPTIMUM OPERATING PARAMETERS; SCALE UP ASPECTS; SONOCHEMICAL REACTORS;

CAVITATION; DESIGN; GEOMETRY; LIQUIDS; SONOCHEMISTRY;

BATCH REACTORS;

EID: 79451472275     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.11.069     Document Type: Article

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