On the design of cascades of ECPrOx reactors for deep CO removal from reformate gas

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-43

  Heidebrecht, P ^a   Hanke Rauschenbach, R ^a   Jorke A ^a   Sundmacher, K ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX TECHNICAL SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic simulation; Energy; Mathematical modelling; Reaction engineering; Scale up; Systems engineering

Indexed keywords

CO REMOVAL; COMPACT MODEL; ECONOMIC OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL MEMBRANE REACTORS; ENERGY; FIRST OPTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION VALUES; OPTIMISATIONS; PREFERENTIAL OXIDATION OF CARBON MONOXIDES; REACTION ENGINEERING; REFORMATE GAS; REFORMATES; SCALE-UP; STACKED SYSTEMS; UNCONSTRAINED SYSTEMS;

BIOREACTORS; CARBON MONOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

DESIGN;

EID: 81155151022     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.07.031     Document Type: Article

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