Technical note: Statistical analysis of pellet size variation in commercial catalysts

Particle and Particle Systems Characterization

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-68

  Wu, Dongfang ^a   Zhou, Jiancheng ^a   Li, Yongdan ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Catalyst; Distribution; Maximum likelihood; Pellet size; Quality of fit

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PELLET SIZE; QUALITY OF FIT; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTIONS;

CATALYSTS;

EID: 20444448115     PISSN: 09340866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppsc.200400907     Document Type: Article

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