Investigation of design parameters in ultrasound reactors with confined channels

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1345-1352

  Jordens, Jeroen ^a,b   Honings, Aurélie ^a   Degrève, Jan ^a   Braeken, Leen ^b   Gerven, Tom Van ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Faculty of Applied Economics   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Sonochemical reactors Reactor design Sonochemical degradation COMSOL multiphysics Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

CAVITATIONAL ACTIVITY; DESIGN PARAMETERS; INDEPENDENT PARAMETERS; REACTOR DESIGNS; SONOCHEMICAL DEGRADATION; SONOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; ULTRASOUND FREQUENCY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS;

SONOCHEMISTRY;

CARBON TETRACHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; DEGRADATION; PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR DESIGN; THERMOACOUSTICS; TUBULAR REACTOR; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 84879010216     PISSN: 13504177     EISSN: 18732828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2013.03.012     Document Type: Article

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