Commercial Steam Reforming Catalysts to Improve Biomass Gasification with Steam-Oxygen Mixtures. 1. Hot Gas Upgrading by the Catalytic Reactor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 5227-5239

  Caballero, Miguel A ^a   Aznar, María P ^a   Gil, Javier ^a   Martín, Juan A ^a   Francés, Eva ^a   Corella, José ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHEMICAL REACTORS; FLUE GASES; FLUIDIZED BEDS; GASIFICATION; HYDROGEN; METHANE; NICKEL; OXYGEN; STEAM;

FIXED BED REACTORS; GASIFIERS;

CATALYSTS;

CATALYST; CLEANING; GAS SEPARATION; GASIFICATION;

EID: 0031421544     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie970149s     Document Type: Article

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