Scale-Up of Chemical Reactions

Process Understanding: For Scale-Up and Manufacture of Active Ingredients

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 155-198

  Stitt, E Hugh ^a   Simmons, Mark J H ^b  

^a JOHNSON MATTHEY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Batch hydrogenation; Good mixing; Heat transfer; Mixing; Semibatch operation; Stirred tank reactor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886055525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527637140.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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