A comparison of a batch recycle reactor and an integral reactor with fines for scale-up of an industrial trickle bed reactor from laboratory data

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 59, Issue 22-23, 2004, Pages 5425-5430

  Hickman, Daniel A ^a   Weidenbach, Meinolf ^b   Friedhoff, Daniel P ^a  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^b Dow Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Mass transfer; Multiphase reactors; Packed bed; Scale up; Trickle bed

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGENATION; REACTION KINETICS;

COPPER CATALYSTS; LIQUID REACTOR PRODUCTS; TRICKLE BED REACTORS; WELL-MIXED VESSELS;

ELECTRIC REACTORS;

BATCH PROCESS; MASS TRANSFER; MULTIPHASE FLOW; TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

EID: 9944252432     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2004.07.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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