Mass transfer characteristics of gas-liquid absorption during Taylor flow in mini/microchannel reactors

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 101, Issue , 2013, Pages 69-80

  Ganapathy, Harish ^a,b   Al Hajri, Ebrahim ^b   Ohadi, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Absorption; Mass transfer; Microstructure; Multiphase flow; Numerical analysis; Taylor flow

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORECASTING; MICROSTRUCTURE; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; TWO PHASE FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; CONCENTRATION LEVELS; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; MASS TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; PHASE FIELD METHODS; REACTIVE MASS TRANSFER; TAYLOR FLOW; TRANSIENT SIMULATION;

MASS TRANSFER;

EID: 84879942804     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2013.06.005     Document Type: Article

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