Mixing performance and drug nano-particle preparation inside slugs in a gas-liquid microchannel reactor

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 100, Issue , 2013, Pages 456-463

  Zhao, Shufang ^a   Wang, Wentan ^a   Shao, Ting ^a   Zhang, Mengxue ^a   Jin, Yong ^a   Cheng, Yi ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Mixing; Multiphase flow; Nano particle preparation; Precipitation; Visualization; LIF technique

Indexed keywords

FLOW VISUALIZATION; LAMINAR FLOW; MICROCHANNELS; MIXING; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NANOPARTICLES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW;

ANTI-SOLVENT PRECIPITATIONS; GAS-LIQUID TAYLOR FLOWS; MICRO CHANNEL REACTORS; NARROW SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; RE-CIRCULATION FLOW; SINGLE-PHASE LAMINAR FLOWS; WATER-ETHANOL SYSTEM;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84880506986     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2013.02.013     Document Type: Article

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