Bubbles scatter light, yet that does not hurt the performance of bubbly slurry photocatalytic reactors

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 100, Issue , 2013, Pages 506-514

  Motegh, Mahsa ^a   Ruud van Ommen, J ^a   Appel, Peter W ^a   Mudde, Robert F ^a   Kreutzer, Michiel T ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bubble columns; Mathematical modeling; Photocatalysis; Photon absorption rate; Reaction engineering; Slurries

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE COLUMNS; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTONS; PHOTOREACTIVITY; SLURRIES;

BIDIRECTIONAL SCATTERINGS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; OPERATIONAL ASPECTS; PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTORS; PHOTON ABSORPTION RATE; PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; REACTION ENGINEERING; SQUARE-ROOT DEPENDENCE;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 84880595664     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2013.02.022     Document Type: Article

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