Analytic versus CFD approach for kinetic modeling of gas phase photocatalysis

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 262, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-8

  Verbruggen, Sammy W ^a,b   Lenaerts, Silvia ^a   Denys, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acetaldehyde; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Gas phase; Kinetics; Mass transfer; Photocatalysis

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GASES; KINETIC PARAMETERS; KINETICS; MASS TRANSFER; PHOTOCATALYSIS; REACTION RATES; SILICON WAFERS;

GAS PHASE PHOTOCATALYSIS; GASPHASE; LANGMUIR-HINSHELWOOD KINETICS; NUMBER OF TRANSFER UNITS; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTIONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTORS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84907992297     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2014.09.041     Document Type: Article

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