Thermocatalytic decomposition of methane using activated carbon: Studying the influence of process parameters using factorial design

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 8985-8993

  Abbas, Hazzim F ^a   Baker, Inas F ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Activated carbon; Carbon deposition; Catalytic methane decomposition; Factorial design; Hydrogen production

Indexed keywords

CARBON DEPOSITION; CARBON FORMATION; CATALYTIC METHANE DECOMPOSITION; DECOMPOSITION TEMPERATURE; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FULL FACTORIAL DESIGN; INITIAL RATE; INTERACTION EFFECT; MAIN EFFECT; MAIN PARAMETERS; METHANE DECOMPOSITION; PROCESS PARAMETERS; PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN; QUADRATIC MODELS; RESEARCH OBJECTIVES; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; THERMOCATALYTIC DECOMPOSITION; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYZERS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; METHANE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA);

EID: 79958803267     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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