CO Clean-Up: Preferential Oxidation

Micro Process Engineering: A Comprehensive Handbook

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 479-502

  Ouyang, Xun ^a   Besser, Ronald S ^b  

^a IdaTech   (United States)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon monoxide; Clean up; Fuel cells; Kinetics; Microreactors; Oxidation; Preferential oxidation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887551598     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527631445.ch44     Document Type: Chapter

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