Experimental and numerical investigation of a propane-fueled, catalytic mesoscale combustor

Catalysis Today

Volumn 155, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 108-115

  Karagiannidis, Symeon ^a   Marketos, Kimon ^a   Mantzaras, John ^a   Schaeren, Rolf ^a   Boulouchos, Konstantinos ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Continuum monolith model; High pressure propane catalytic reaction rate; Mesoscale catalytic combustor; Platinum catalyst

Indexed keywords

2D TEMPERATURE FIELDS; CATALYTIC COMBUSTORS; CATALYTIC REACTIONS; COMBUSTOR EFFICIENCY; CONTINUUM MODEL; CONTINUUM MONOLITH MODEL; EXHAUST GAS TEMPERATURES; GLOBAL REACTION RATE; HEAT TRANSFER MECHANISM; HONEYCOMB REACTORS; KINETIC SCHEME; LI-ION BATTERIES; MESO-SCALE COMBUSTORS; MESOSCALE; MONOLITHIC STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OPERATING CONDITION; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PLATINUM CATALYST; PORTABLE POWER; POWER DENSITIES; POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS; POWER OUT PUT; PRESSURE RANGES; STATE OF THE ART; TOTAL OXIDATION;

CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; COMBUSTION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PLATINUM; PROPANE; REACTION RATES;

COMBUSTORS;

EID: 77956063776     PISSN: 09205861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2010.04.030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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