A new way to look at fischer-tropsch synthesis using flushing experiments

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 4359-4365

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; CATALYST SURFACES; CONTINUOUS STIRRED TANK REACTOR; GAS-SOLID; LIQUID PRODUCTS; PRODUCT SELECTIVITIES; REACTION CONDITIONS; STEADY STATE; SUPPORTED COBALT CATALYST; SYN-GAS; TIME ON STREAMS; TIO;

COBALT; EXPERIMENTS; FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; INERT GASES; REACTION RATES; SYNTHESIS GAS;

CATALYST SELECTIVITY;

EID: 79954546785     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie102095c     Document Type: Article

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