Modeling the effect of flow mal-distribution on the performance of a catalytic converter

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 71, Issue , 2012, Pages 310-320

  Agrawal, Gaurav ^a   Kaisare, Niket S ^a,b   Pushpavanam, S ^a   Ramanathan, Karthik ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalytic convertor; Chemical reactors; Flow mal distribution; Reaction engineering; Simulation; Transport processes

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC CONVERTORS; FLOW MAL-DISTRIBUTION; REACTION ENGINEERING; SIMULATION; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

CATALYTIC CONVERTERS; CATALYTIC OXIDATION; CHEMICAL REACTORS; GEOMETRY; HEAT LOSSES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

INLET FLOW;

EID: 84855886472     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.12.041     Document Type: Article

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