Regeneration of fixed-bed catalytic reactors deactivated by coke: Influence of operating conditions and of different pretreatments of the coke deposits

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1813-1823

  Royo, C ^a   Perdices, J M ^a   Monzon A ^a   Santamaria J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CATALYST DEACTIVATION; CATALYST REGENERATION; COKE; COMPOSITION EFFECTS;

COKE PRETREATMENT; FIXED BED CATALYTIC REACTORS; REACTOR FEED; THERMAL AGING INDEX; TOTAL GAS FEEDRATE;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EID: 0030173910     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie950639p     Document Type: Article

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