A process synthesis approach to investigate the effect of the probability of chain growth on the efficiency of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 5928-5935

  Mukoma, Peter ^a   Hildebrandt, Diane ^a   Glasser, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; HYDROCRACKING; LIQUID FUELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

CHAIN GROWTH; FLOWSHEET MODELS;

FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS;

COSTS; FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; HYDROCRACKING; LIQUID FUELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

EID: 33748436404     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0505256     Document Type: Article

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