Butane Oxidation to Maleic Anhydride: Kinetic Modeling and Byproducts

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 42, Issue 26, 2003, Pages 6730-6742

  Lorences, María J ^a,c   Patience, Gregory S ^b,d   Díez, Fernando V ^a   Coca, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c HALDOR TOPSØE A S   (Denmark)

^d Invista   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ADSORPTION; BYPRODUCTS; CARBON MONOXIDE; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; REDOX REACTIONS; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

KINETIC MODELING;

BUTANE;

ACETIC ACID; ACRYLIC ACID; BUTANE; CARBON MONOXIDE; FUMARIC ACID; MALEIC ANHYDRIDE; METHACRYLIC ACID; OXYGEN; PHTHALIC ACID;

BUTANE; OXIDATION;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETICS; MODEL; OXIDATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY;

EID: 0347537913     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0302948     Document Type: Article

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