Study on the FCC process of a novel riser-downer coupling reactor (III): Industrial trial and-CFD modeling

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 8582-8587

  Liu, Fei ^a   Wei, Fei ^a   Li, Guoliang ^b   Cheng, Yi ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Luo, Guohua ^a   Li, Qiang ^a   Qian, Zhen ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Jin, Yong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jinan Oil Refinery Company   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTENES; CATALYSIS; CATALYTIC CRACKING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GASOLINE; OLEFINS; PROPYLENE;

DRY GASSES; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; FCC PROCESSES; FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCHES; GASOLINE OCTANE NUMBERS; INDUSTRIAL TRIALS; LUMP KINETIC MODELS; MIXING BEHAVIORS; OCTANE NUMBERS; OIL RATIOS; OLEFIN CONTENTS; PROPYLENE YIELDS; RISER REACTORS; SIMULATION RESULTS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING;

EID: 57249089397     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie800645y     Document Type: Article

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