Design and fabrication of a high-throughput microreactor and its evaluation for highly exothermic reactions

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 50, 2012, Pages 16270-16277

  Peela, Nageswara Rao ^a   Lee, Ivan C ^b   Vlachos, Dionisios G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL CHANNELS; CHANNEL POSITION; EXPERIMENTAL ERRORS; FLOW UNIFORMITY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; ITS EVALUATION; MICRO-REACTOR; MULTI-PHYSICS; ON FLOW; PROPANE OXIDATION; TOTAL OXIDATION;

CATALYSTS; PROPANE;

DESIGN;

EID: 84871298188     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie302093u     Document Type: Article

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