A novel concept reactor design for preventing salt deposition in supercritical water

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1515-1522

  Xu, Dong H ^a   Wang, Shu Z ^a   Gong, Yan M ^a   Guo, Y ^a   Tang, Xing Y ^a   Ma, Hong H ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Plugging; Reactor design; Salt deposition; Supercritical water

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; FEED-RATES; INTERNAL SURFACES; KEY PROBLEMS; LONG TIME TESTS; NOVEL CONCEPT; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; PILOT SCALE; PLUGGING; REACTOR CONFIGURATION; REACTOR DESIGNS; SALT DEPOSITION; SEWAGE SLUDGE TREATMENT; SUPERCRITICAL WATER; SUPERCRITICAL WATER OXIDATION; TRANSPIRING WALL REACTORS;

CATALYST DEACTIVATION; CATALYST POISONING; DESIGN; INTERNAL OXIDATION; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

CORROSION;

EID: 78149411112     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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