Direct conversion of methane in formaldehyde at very short residence time

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 6331-6340

  Zhang, J ^a   Burkle Vitzthum V ^a   Marquaire, P M ^a   Wild, G ^a   Commenge, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Annular microstructure; Chemical reactors; Gases; Kinetics; Methane oxidation; Short residence time

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR FLOWS; ANNULAR MICROSTRUCTURE; DIRECT CONVERSION; DIRECT OXIDATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; GASPHASE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; KINETIC DATA; KINETIC SIMULATION; METHANE OXIDATION; METHOXY; METHYL RADICAL; MICRO-REACTOR; PARTIAL METHANE OXIDATION; RESIDENCE TIME; SINGLE PASS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS; FORMALDEHYDE; KINETICS; OXIDATION; QUARTZ;

METHANE;

EID: 80054909407     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.03.059     Document Type: Article

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