Fuels and chemicals manufacturing: Guidelines for understanding and minimizing the production costs

CATTECH

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 82-95

  Lange, Jean Paul ^a  

^a SHELL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Catalysis; Energy; Investment; Process economics; Productivity; Selectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012323070     PISSN: 13846566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011944622328     Document Type: Article

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