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Original Articles

Computational fluid dynamic enabled design optimisation of miniaturised continuous oscillatory baffled reactors in chemical processing

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Pages 317-331 | Received 25 Jun 2019, Accepted 22 Sep 2019, Published online: 30 Oct 2019

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