Carbon catalyzed methane decomposition for enhanced solar thermal cracking

ASME 2011 5th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, ES 2011

Volumn , Issue PARTS A, B, AND C, 2011, Pages 1697-1706

  Shilapuram, Vidyasagar ^a   Ozalp, Nesrin ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Carbon catalyst; Kinetics; Methane decomposition; Solar cracking; Thermogravimetric analysis

Indexed keywords

CARBON - HYDROGEN REACTIONS; CARBON CATALYSTS; CATALYTIC METHANE DECOMPOSITIONS; DECOMPOSITION OF METHANE; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION RATE; METHANE DECOMPOSITION; SOLAR CRACKINGS; THERMO-GRAVIMETRIC EXPERIMENTS;

CARBON; CATALYTIC CRACKING; CRACKS; DECOMPOSITION; ENZYME KINETICS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

METHANE;

EID: 84881192011     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ES2011-54644     Document Type: Conference Paper

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