Comparative study of an iron fischer-Tropsch catalyst performance in stirred tank slurry and fixed-bed reactors

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6038-6044

  Bukur, Dragomir B ^a   Lang, Xiaosu ^a,b   Nowicki, Lech ^a,c  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIXED-BED REACTORS (FBR); REACTANTS; STIRRED TANK SLURRY REACTORS (STSR);

ADSORPTION; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHEMICAL REACTORS; DESORPTION; FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; IRON; OLEFINS; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SLURRIES; SOLUBILITY; SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS;

CATALYSTS;

SLURRY;

EID: 23844448736     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0492146     Document Type: Article

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