Electrochemical microreactor design for alkoxylation reactions-experiments and simulations

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1515-1524

  Kristal, Jiri ^a   Kodym, Roman ^b   Bouzek, Karel ^b   Jiricny, Vladimir ^a   Hanika, Jiri ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKOXYLATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROREACTORS; FIXED NUMBERS; GAS REMOVAL; HEAT MANAGEMENT; LIQUID DISTRIBUTION; METHOXYLATION; MICRO REACTOR; MICROREACTOR DESIGN; NUMERICAL PARAMETRIC STUDIES; PARALLEL ELECTRODES; PARALLEL MICROCHANNELS; REACTOR DESIGNS; UTILIZATION FACTOR; VARIABLE NUMBER;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

EID: 84856527776     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie200654c     Document Type: Article

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