Hydrocracking of heavy vacuum gas oil with a Pt/H-beta - Al2O3 catalyst: Effect of zeolite crystal size in the nanoscale range

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2773-2782

  Landau, Miron V ^a   Vradman, Leonid ^b   Valtchev, Valentin ^c   Lezervant, Jérôme ^c   Liubich, Elena ^a   Talianker, Michael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NEGEV ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ALUMINA; CATALYSTS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; DIFFUSION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GAS OILS; RATE CONSTANTS; TEMPERATURE PROGRAMMED DESORPTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; ZEOLITES;

SURFACE AREAS;

HYDROCRACKING;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; COKE; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE; ZEOLITE;

ZEOLITE;

ACIDITY; ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CATALYST; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DESORPTION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; GAS; HYDROGENATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VACUUM; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0037871971     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie020899o     Document Type: Article

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