Products and kinetics of glucomannan pyrolysis

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 5030-5039

  Branca, C ^a   Di Blasi, C ^b   Mango, C ^b   Hrablay, I ^b,c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPANDED BEDS; FLUIDIZED BED REACTORS; FURFURYL ALCOHOL; GLUCOMANNAN; ORGANIC FRACTIONS; PYROLYSIS MECHANISM; SMALL SAMPLES; WEIGHT LOSS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84876157364     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie400155x     Document Type: Article

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