Methanol steam reformer on a silicon wafer

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 976-985

  Park, Hyung Gyu ^a,b   Malen, Jonathan A ^a   Piggott III, W Thomas ^b   Morse, Jeffrey D ^b   Greif, Ralph ^a   Grigoropoulos, Costas P ^a   Havstad, Mark A ^b   Upadhye, Ravi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Methanol reforming; Microreactor

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKED BEDS; REFORMING REACTIONS; STEAM;

METHANOL REFORMING; METHANOL STEAM REFORMER; MICROREACTOR; PACKED BED MICROCHANNEL REACTORS;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 33747426654     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2006.878888     Document Type: Article

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