When do chemical reactions promote mixing?

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Ivleva, T P ^a   Merzhanov, A G ^a   Rumanov, E N ^a   Vaganova, N I ^a   Campbell, A N ^b   Hayhurst, A N ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF STRUCTURAL MACROKINETICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chaos; Chemical reactors; Critical phenomena; Mixing; Natural convection; Nonlinear dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION POINTS; CHAOS; CHAOTIC BEHAVIOUR; CONTINUOUSLY STIRRED TANK REACTOR; CONVECTIVE MOTIONS; CRITICAL PHENOMENA; CRITICAL POINTS; ENHANCED MIXING; EXOTHERMIC CHEMICAL REACTION; FLUIDISED BED; HEAT RELEASE; INTENSE MIXING; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; REACTING FLUIDS; REACTING MIXTURE; SELF-MIXING; SPATIAL INHOMOGENEITIES; TEMPERATURE FIELD;

CHAOS THEORY; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; CHEMICALS; DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; NATURAL CONVECTION; REACTION RATES; TURBULENCE;

MIXING;

EID: 79952453857     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2011.01.002     Document Type: Review

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