Hybrid SNCR-SCR technologies for NOx control: Modeling and experiment

AIChE Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2603-2617

  Wendt, Jost O L ^a   Linak, William P ^b   Groff, Paul W ^b   Srivastava, Ravi K ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CATALYSIS; DIFFUSION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FLUE GASES; REACTION KINETICS; REDUCTION; SURFACE REACTIONS;

SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION (SCR);

NITROGEN OXIDES;

COAL; NITRIC OXIDE;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; NITRIC OXIDE; REDUCTION;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CALIBRATION; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; COMBUSTION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENERGY; GAS ANALYSIS; GAS DIFFUSION; HYBRID; KINETICS; REDUCTION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0037829149     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690471123     Document Type: Article

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