Preparation and performance of a catalyst-coated stacked foil microreactor for the methanol synthesis

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 10934-10941

  Phan, Xuyen K ^a   Bakhtiary, Hamidreza D ^a   Myrstad, Rune ^b   Thormann, Janina ^c   Pfeifer, Peter ^c   Venvik, Hilde J ^a   Holmen, Anders ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATED FOILS; DEPOSITION-PRECIPITATION; FIXED-BED REACTORS; HEAT EXCHANGE; HIGH PRESSURE; METHANOL SYNTHESIS; MICRO-REACTOR; SLURRY COATING; SOL-GEL COATINGS; STACKED FOILS;

CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; METHANOL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SYNTHESIS GAS MANUFACTURE;

COATINGS;

EID: 78049381867     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie1005405     Document Type: Conference Paper

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