Design criteria for a barrier-based gas-liquid flow distributor for parallel microchannels

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 181-182, Issue , 2012, Pages 549-556

  Al Rawashdeh, M ^a   Fluitsma, L J M ^a   Nijhuis, T A ^a   Rebrov, E V ^b   Hessel, V ^a   Schouten, J C ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fabrication tolerance; Microreactor; Multiphase flow; Numbering up; Scale up; Taylor flow

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION TOLERANCES; MICRO-REACTOR; NUMBERING-UP; SCALE-UP; TAYLOR FLOW;

DESIGN; FLOW CONTROL; GASES; MICROCHANNELS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MULTIPHASE FLOW; PARALLEL FLOW; POLYSULFONES; PRESSURE DROP;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84856324855     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2011.11.086     Document Type: Article

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