Recycling of polyethene and polypropene in a novel bench-scale rotating cone reactor by high-temperature pyrolysis

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2293-2300

  Westerhout, R W J ^a   Waanders, J ^a   Kuipers, J A M ^a   Van Swaaij, W P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTENES; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; METHANE; POLYETHYLENES; POLYPROPYLENES; PROPYLENE; PYROLYSIS; RECYCLING;

ROTATING CONE REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EID: 0032098237     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie970704q     Document Type: Article

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