Modeling the growth of carbon nanotubes in a floating catalyst reactor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1143-1149

  Samandari Masouleh, Leila ^a   Mostoufi, Navid ^a   Khodadadi, Abbasali ^a   Mortazavi, Yadollah ^a   Maghrebi, Morteza ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; AVERAGE HEIGHT; CATALYST CONCENTRATION; CATALYST PRECURSORS; DEACTIVATION RATE; FERROCENES; FIRST ORDER; FLOATING CATALYST; IMPROVED MODELS; OPERATING CONDITION; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

AMORPHOUS CARBON; CATALYST DEACTIVATION; IRON COMPOUNDS; ORGANOMETALLICS; XYLENE;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84856303046     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie201137j     Document Type: Article

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