An Experimental Study on the Oxidative Coupling of Methane in a Direct Current Corona Discharge Reactor over Sr/La2O3 Catalyst

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 632-637

  Marafee, Abdulathim ^a   Liu, Changjun ^a,b   Xu, Genhui ^a,b   Mallinson, Richard ^a   Lobban, Lance ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CATALYST SELECTIVITY; CATALYSTS; ELECTRIC CORONA; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; EXPERIMENTS; PACKED BEDS; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS;

CORONA DISCHARGE REACTOR; METHANE CONVERSION; OXIDATIVE COUPLING;

METHANE;

EID: 0031094724     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie960139b     Document Type: Article

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