Staging distribution of oxygen in circulating fast fluidized-bed membrane reactors for the production of hydrogen

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 5493-5502

  Abashar, Mohamed E E ^a   Alhabdan, Fahad M ^a   Elnashaie, Said S E H ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; FLUIDIZED BEDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PEROVSKITE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

HEAT INTEGRATION; NONUNIFORM OXYGEN; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM; THIN LAYER;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

CHEMICAL REACTORS; FLUIDIZED BEDS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PEROVSKITE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

EID: 34548205462     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie061579y     Document Type: Article

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