The role of vapour-liquid equilibrium in Fischer-Tropsch product distribution

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 6254-6263

  Masuku, Cornelius Mduduzi ^a   Hildebrandt, Diane ^a   Glasser, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

ASF; Chain propagation probability ( ); Fischer Tropsch reaction; Phase equilibria; Product distribution model; Vapour liquid equilibrium (VLE)

Indexed keywords

ASF; FISCHER TROPSCH; FISCHER-TROPSCH REACTION; LIQUID PHASE; PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION MODEL; PRODUCT DISTRIBUTIONS; RAOULT'S LAW; VAPOUR-LIQUID EQUILIBRIUM; VAPOUR-PHASE;

PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 80053239991     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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