Enhancing the production of biofuels from cottonseed oil by fixed-fluidized bed catalytic cracking

Renewable Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1033-1039

  Li, Hong ^a   Shen, Benxian ^a   Kabalu, J C ^a   Nchare, Mominou ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Catalytic cracking; Fixed fluidized reactor; Response surface methodology

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; COTTONSEED OIL; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; FUEL OILS; FUELS; HYDROCARBONS; LIQUID FUELS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PETROLEUM PRODUCTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VEGETABLE OILS;

AMBIENT PRESSURES; FIXED-FLUIDIZED REACTOR; HYDROCARBON FUELS; LIGHT FUEL OILS; LIQUID PRODUCTS; OIL RATIOS; OPERATING CONDITIONS; OPERATING VARIABLES; OPTIMUM VALUES; REACTION TEMPERATURES; RESIDENCE TIMES; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGIES; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY;

CATALYTIC CRACKING;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOFUEL;

MICROPUS;

EID: 56049107833     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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