Catalytic partial oxidation of methane: Is a distinction between direct and indirect pathways meaningful?

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 46, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 9045-9052

  Liu, Tengfei ^a   Snyder, Cynthia ^a   Veser, Götz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN PATHWAYS; PRODUCT CONCENTRATIONS;

CATALYST ACTIVITY; OXIDATION; SYNTHESIS GAS;

METHANE;

CATALYST ACTIVITY; METHANE; OXIDATION; SYNTHESIS GAS;

EID: 38149125531     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie070062z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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