Hydrogen Production in a Reverse-Flow Autothermal Catalytic Microreactor: From Evidence of Performance Enhancement to Innovative Reactor Design

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 42, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 6273-6279

  Kikas, Timo ^a   Bardenshteyn, Ilya ^a   Williamson, Christopher ^a   Ejimofor, Cornelius ^a   Puri, Pushpinder ^b   Fedorov, Andrei G ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CELLS; IGNITION;

AUTOTHERMAL OPERATIONS;

HYDROGEN;

FUEL; HYDROGEN;

FUEL CELL; HYDROGEN; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION; POWER GENERATION; REACTOR; REVERSE FLOW;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CATALYSIS; COST; DENSITY; FLOW; LOW TEMPERATURE; OXIDATION; POWER SUPPLY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0345767558     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie030021c     Document Type: Article

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