Radiation Effect on the Thermal Cracking of n-Hexadecane. 2. A Kinetic Approach to Chain Reaction

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 3498-3504

  Wu, Guozhong ^a   Katsumura, Yosuke ^a   Matsuura, Chihiro ^a   Ishigure, Kenichi ^a   Kubo, Junichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ENERGY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; PARAFFINS; RADIATION EFFECTS; REACTION KINETICS;

HEXADECANE; RADIATION THERMAL CRACKING (RTC);

CRACKING (CHEMICAL);

EID: 0031234741     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie970025f     Document Type: Article

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