Continuous heterogeneously catalyzed oxidation of benzyl alcohol using a tube-in-tube membrane microreactor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 54, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 4183-4189

  Wu, Gaowei ^a   Constantinou, Achilleas ^a   Cao, Enhong ^a   Kuhn, Simon ^b   Morad, Moataz ^c   Sankar, Meenakshisundaram ^c   Bethell, Donald ^d   Hutchings, Graham J ^c   Gavriilidis, Asterios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; CATALYTIC OXIDATION; CHEMICAL REACTORS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OXYGEN; PHASE INTERFACES; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

BENZYL ALCOHOL; CATALYST DILUTIONS; CATALYST PARTICLES; CATALYZED OXIDATION; INHERENT SAFETY; LIQUID SUBSTRATE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS;

CATALYST SELECTIVITY;

EID: 84929470601     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie5041176     Document Type: Article

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