Feasibility study of a novel membrane reactor for syngas production. Part 2: Adiabatic reactor simulations

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 291, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 33-45

  Smit, J ^a   Zhang, Wenxing ^a   van Sint Annaland, M ^a   Kuipers, J A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chemical reactors; Energy; Membranes; Perovskite; Reactor engineering; Reactor modeling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PEROVSKITE; SYNTHESIS GAS;

PERMEATION EXPRESSION; PEROVSKITE MEMBRANE; REACTOR ENGINEERING; REACTOR MODELING;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

OXYGEN; PEROVSKITE;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PEROVSKITE; SYNTHESIS GAS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MEMBRANE MODEL; MEMBRANE REACTOR; MEMBRANE STABILIZATION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 33846074039     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2006.12.050     Document Type: Article

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