Indentations and baffles for improving mixing rate in deep microchannel reactors

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 167, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 490-495

  Sotowa, Ken Ichiro ^a   Yamamoto, Atsushi ^a   Nakagawa, Keizo ^a   Sugiyama, Shigeru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Baffles; Deep microchannel reactor; Indentations; Mixing; Secondary flow

Indexed keywords

BAFFLES; DEEP MICROCHANNEL REACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLUID FLOW; MICRO CHANNEL REACTORS; MICRO-SCALES; MIXING PERFORMANCE; MIXING RATES; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION;

MIXING; SECONDARY FLOW;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 79952454641     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.08.085     Document Type: Article

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