Enhancement of the liquid-side mass transfer in a falling film catalytic microreactor by in-channel mixing structures

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 8719-8725

  Rebrov, Evgeny V ^a   Duisters, Thijs ^b   Löb, Patrick ^c   Meuldijk, Jan ^b   Hessel, Volker ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUT FÜR MIKROTECHNIK MAINZ GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION AND DIFFUSION; FALLING FILM; IN-CHANNELS; LIQUID FLOW RATES; LIQUID-SIDE MASS TRANSFER; MICRO-REACTOR; MIXING STRUCTURES; TOTAL PRESSURE;

CATALYTIC OXIDATION; FLOW RATE; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84863527863     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie301058h     Document Type: Conference Paper

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