Conversion of polyethylene into gasoline-range fuels by two-stage catalytic degradation using silica-alumina and HZSM-5 zeolite

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 385-390

  Uemichi, Yoshio ^a   Nakamura, Junko ^a   Itoh, Toshihiro ^a   Sugioka, Masatoshi ^a   Garforth, Arthur A ^b   Dwyer, John ^b  

^a MURORAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; DEGRADATION; GASOLINE; SILICA; ZEOLITES;

TWO-STAGE CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; ZEOLITE HZSM-5;

POLYETHYLENES;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; GASOLINE; POLYETHYLENE; SILICON DIOXIDE; ZEOLITE;

DEGRADATION; FUEL; GASOLINE; POLYETHYLENE; POLYMER;

AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; DEGRADATION; ISOMERISM; PROTON TRANSPORT;

EID: 0033083544     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie980341+     Document Type: Article

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