Desulfurization of diesel fuel in a fixed bed adsorption column: Experimental study and simulation

Petroleum Science and Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 2361-2371

  Muzic, M ^a   Sertic Bionda, K ^a   Adzamic, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

adsorption; column; desulfurization; diesel fuel; fixed bed

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION COLUMNS; ADSORPTIVE DESULFURIZATION; BED DEPTH; COLUMN; COLUMN HEIGHT; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FEED FLOW RATE; FIXED BED; FIXED-BED ADSORPTION;

ACTIVATED CARBON; DESULFURIZATION; DIESEL FUELS; EXPERIMENTS; FUELS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; SULFUR;

ADSORPTION;

EID: 80053221207     PISSN: 10916466     EISSN: 15322459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10916461003716657     Document Type: Article

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