Non-ideal flow in an annular photocatalytic reactor

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1297-1306

  Jović, Franjo ^a   Kosar, Vanja ^a   Tomašić, Vesna ^a   Gomzi, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Annular photocatalytic reactor; Reactor models; TiO 2; Toluene oxidation

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; ANNULAR FLOWS; ANNULAR PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTOR; ANNULAR REACTORS; AXIAL DISPERSION MODEL; BASIC PRINCIPLES; CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING; FLOW MODES; INPUT DISTURBANCE; MODEL EQUATIONS; MODEL REACTIONS; NON-STATIONARY CONDITION; NONSTATIONARY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; PHOTOCATALYTIC OXIDATIONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTORS; PHOTOREACTORS; REACTION MIXTURE; REACTOR MODELS; RECIRCULATIONS; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; STIRRED TANK REACTORS; THIN LAYERS; TIO; TOLUENE OXIDATION; TUBULAR REACTORS;

MIXING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TOLUENE;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84865538078     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2011.12.014     Document Type: Article

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