Analysis of equilibrium shifting by inter-stage reactant feeding in a series of isothermal reactors

International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Allain, Florent ^a   Portha, Jean François ^a,b   Falk, Laurent ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

intensification; staged reactors; transesterification

Indexed keywords

INTENSIFICATION; ISOTHERMAL REACTOR;

TRANSESTERIFICATION;

EID: 84907727509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15426580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ijcre-2013-0116     Document Type: Article

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