Towards biofuel combustion with an easily extruded clay as a natural catalyst

Applied Energy

Volumn 107, Issue , 2013, Pages 149-156

  Tian, Zhen Yu ^a   Chafik, Tarik ^b   Assebban, Mhamed ^b   Harti, Sanae ^b   Bahlawane, Naoufal ^a,c   Mountapmbeme Kouotou, Patrick ^a   Kohse Höinghaus, Katharina ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ABDELMALEK ESSAADI UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^c LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Biofuel; Catalytic combustion; Clay; Honeycomb monolith; N Butanol

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; CARBON MONOXIDE; CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; CLAY; ETHYLENE; FLOW RATE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

CATALYTIC COMBUSTION; CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; CATALYTIC PROPERTIES; HONEYCOMB MONOLITH; N-BUTANOL; SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS; TEXTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; TRANSITION-METAL OXIDES;

COMBUSTION;

ALCOHOL; BIOFUEL; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CLAY MINERAL; COMBUSTION; ETHYLENE; MINERALOGY; MORPHOLOGY; OXIDE; STABILIZATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84875198872     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.02.025     Document Type: Article

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