Enhanced methanol yields from the direct partial oxidation of methane in a simulated countercurrent moving bed chromatographic reactor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 41, Issue 25, 2002, Pages 6528-6536

  Bjorklund, Mark C ^a   Carr, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METHANE; METHANOL; OXIDATION; OXYGEN;

REACTION CONDITIONS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

MACROGOL; METHANE; METHANOL;

CHROMATOGRAPHY; METHANE; METHANOL; MOVING BED REGIME; OXIDATION; YIELD;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; COUNTER CURRENT CHROMATOGRAPHY; GAS LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; OXIDATION; SIMULATED COUNTERCURRENT MOVING BED CHROMATOGRAPHIC REACTOR; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TUBULAR REACTOR;

EID: 0037065194     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0201617     Document Type: Article

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