Three dimensional coupled simulation of furnaces and reactor tubes for the thermal cracking of hydrocarbons

Revue de l'Institute Francais du Petrole

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-194

  Detemmerman, T ^a   Froment, F ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GAS FURNACES; HYDROCARBONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PROPANE CRACKING FURNACE; TRANSPORT EQUATIONS;

CRACKING (CHEMICAL);

EID: 0032028293     PISSN: 00202274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2516/ogst:1998017     Document Type: Article

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