Understanding riser and downer based fluid catalytic cracking processes by a comprehensive two-dimensional reactor model

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 12-26

  Wu, Changning ^a   Cheng, Yi ^a   Jin, Yong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACKING (CHEMICAL); ENERGY BALANCE; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDROGEN; KINETIC THEORY; MODEL STRUCTURES; OLEFINS; PETROLEUM REFINING; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BACKMIXING; COMPREHENSIVE MODELS; COMPREHENSIVE TWO-DIMENSIONAL; DOWNER REACTORS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FCC PROCESS; GAS SOLIDS; HYDROGEN-TRANSFER REACTIONS; INTERMEDIATE PRODUCTS; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; LIGHT OLEFINS; LUMP KINETIC MODELS; MASS BALANCES; MIDDLE DISTILLATES; MODEL PREDICTIONS; MOLECULAR DESCRIPTIONS; REACTING FLOWS; REACTION MECHANISMS; REACTOR MODELS; REACTOR PERFORMANCE; REFINING PROCESS;

FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING;

EID: 61649101336     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie800168x     Document Type: Article

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