Catalytic Partial Oxidation and Autothermal Reforming

Hydrogen and Syngas Production and Purification Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 127-155

  Liu, Ke ^a   Deluga, Gregg D ^a   Bitsch Larsen, Anders ^b   Schmidt, Lanny D ^b   Zhang, Lingzhi ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalytic partial oxidation and autothermal reforming; CPO catalysts and nickel based CPO catalysts; CPO mechanism and kinetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889276353     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470561256.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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