Making sense of the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction: Start-up

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 9753-9758

  Lu, Xiaojun ^a   Hildebrandt, Diane ^a   Liu, Xinying ^a   Glasser, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS STIRRED TANK REACTOR; EXTERNAL MASS TRANSFER; FISCHER TROPSCH; FISCHER-TROPSCH REACTION; FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS REACTION; FRESH CATALYSTS; GAS-SOLID; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTS; PRODUCT SELECTIVITIES; REACTION CONDITIONS; SHORT TERM; START-UPS; STIRRER SPEED; SUPPORTED COBALT CATALYST; TIO;

CATALYSTS; COBALT; EXPERIMENTS; MASS TRANSFER; REACTION RATES;

FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 77957996685     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie1011933     Document Type: Article

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