Photocatalytic-reactor efficiencies and simplified expressions to assess their relevance in kinetic experiments

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 207-208, Issue , 2012, Pages 607-615

  Motegh, Mahsa ^a   Cen, Jiajun ^a   Appel, Peter W ^a   van Ommen, J Ruud ^a   Kreutzer, Michiel T ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chemical reaction engineering; Mathematical modeling; Photocatalysis; Photon absorption rate; Photonic efficiency; Slurry reactors

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CATALYST LOADINGS; CATALYST PARTICLES; CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING; DIFFERENTIAL MODE; FRONT WALLS; KINETIC DATA; KINETIC EXPERIMENT; LIGHT DISTRIBUTION; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIMITING VALUES; OPTICAL THICKNESS; PHOTON ABSORPTION RATE; PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; PHOTON FLUX; PHOTONIC EFFICIENCIES; PHOTOREACTORS; SIMPLIFIED EXPRESSIONS; SLURRY REACTOR; SQUARE-ROOT DEPENDENCE; VOLUMETRIC RATES;

CATALYSTS; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; REACTION RATES;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84866859050     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2012.07.023     Document Type: Article

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