Pressure Swing Adsorption: A Review of UK Patent Literature

Separation Science and Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 1-38

  Ray, Martyn S ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASES - SEPARATION; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS - BIBLIOGRAPHIES;

PATENT LITERATURE; PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION; PROCESS VARIABLES; PSA PROCESS;

ADSORPTION;

EID: 0022530157     PISSN: 01496395     EISSN: 15205754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01496398608058363     Document Type: Review

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