Design of turbulent flame aerosol reactors by mixing-limited fluid dynamics

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3159-3168

  Gröhn, Arto J ^a   Buesser, Beat ^a   Jokiniemi, Jorma K ^b,c   Pratsinis, Sotiris E ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS; FRACTAL-LIKE; HEXAMETHYL DISILOXANE; NANOPARTICLE SYNTHESIS; PARTICLE DYNAMICS; PARTICLE NUMBERS; PRIMARY PARTICLES; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; TRANSPORT EQUATION; TURBULENT DIFFUSION FLAME; TURBULENT FLAME; VOLUME CONCENTRATION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COMBUSTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLAME SYNTHESIS; FLUID DYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SILICA;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 79952576628     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie1017817     Document Type: Article

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