Investigations on heat transfer and hydrodynamics under pyrolysis conditions of a pilot-plant draft tube conical spouted bed reactor

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 790-798

  Makibar, J ^a   Fernandez Akarregi, A R ^a   Alava, I ^a   Cueva, F ^a   Lopez, G ^b   Olazar, M ^b  

^a IK4 IKERLAN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conical spouted bed; Draft tube; Fast pyrolysis; Heat transfer; Hydrodynamics; Reaction engineering; Scale up

Indexed keywords

CONICAL SPOUTED BEDS; DRAFT TUBES; FAST PYROLYSIS; REACTION ENGINEERING; SCALE-UP;

HYDRAULIC TURBINES; HYDRODYNAMICS; PILOT PLANTS; PYROLYSIS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 80051470468     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2011.05.013     Document Type: Article

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