Detailed kinetics of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis on an industrial Fe-Mn catalyst

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 5066-5090

  Yang, Jun ^a,b   Liu, Ying ^a,b   Chang, Jie ^a   Wang, Yi Ning ^a   Bai, Liang ^a   Xu, Yuan Yuan ^a   Xiang, Hong Wei ^a   Li, Yong Wang ^a   Zhong, Bing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COAL CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

REACTOR MODELING;

REACTION KINETICS;

ALKENE; CARBENE; HYDROCARBON; IRON; MANGANESE; METAL; PARAFFIN;

KINETICS;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DESORPTION; ENERGY; EVALUATION; FISCHER TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; FIXED BED REACTOR; LANGMUIR HINSHELWOOD HOUGEN WATSON MODEL; LEVENBERG MARQUARDT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METAL BINDING; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; REACTION ANALYSIS; REACTION OPTIMIZATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY;

EID: 0142027117     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie030135o     Document Type: Article

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