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Catalyst mixing in bubble column slurry reactors
Author(s) -
Chidambaram M.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
the canadian journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1939-019X
pISSN - 0008-4034
DOI - 10.1002/cjce.5450670323
Subject(s) - slurry , bubble , mixing (physics) , dispersion (optics) , mechanics , catalysis , column (typography) , thermodynamics , steady state (chemistry) , materials science , chemical reactor , chemistry , mathematics , physics , geometry , biochemistry , quantum mechanics , connection (principal bundle) , optics
Abstract The reported experimental data of Pandit and Joshi (1984) on axial and radial steady‐state catalyst concentration in a semibatch bubble column slurry reactor is interpreted by the dispersion model. The elliptic partial differential equation with its associated boundary conditions is solved analytically for catalyst concentration by the method of separation of variables. The proposed model adequately fits the experimental data.