On the consistent modeling of porous catalyst pellets: Mass and molar formulations

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 8222-8236

  Solsvik, Jannike ^a   Tangen, Stian ^a   Jakobsen, Hugo A ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MODELING; AVERAGE VELOCITY; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; DUSTY GAS; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSS; INTERPRETATION OF EXPERIMENTS; INTRAPARTICLE; MASS DIFFUSION FLUX; MAXWELL-STEFAN; MIXTURE VELOCITY; MODEL COMPLEXITY; PELLET MODEL; POROUS CATALYSTS; RIGOROUS MODEL;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PELLETIZING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84862567976     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie3007853     Document Type: Article

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