Ethylbenzene dehydrogenation into styrene: Kinetic modeling and reactor simulation

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 9183-9194

  Lee, Won Jae ^a,b   Froment, Gilbert F ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

^b LG Chemical Ltd   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC REACTORS; COKE FORMATIONS; ESTIMATED PARAMETERS; ETHYLBENZENE DEHYDROGENATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; FEED MOLAR RATIOS; INTERNAL DIFFUSIONS; INTRINSIC RATES; IRON CATALYSTS; KINETIC MODELING; KINETIC MODELS; MODEL DISCRIMINATIONS; REACTOR SIMULATIONS; SPACE TIMES; TUBULAR REACTORS;

DEHYDROGENATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW SIMULATION; HYDROGEN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODEL STRUCTURES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POTASSIUM; STATISTICAL TESTS; STYRENE;

ETHYLBENZENE;

EID: 57949098241     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie071098u     Document Type: Article

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