Kinetic study of higher alcohol synthesis directly from syngas over CoCu/SiO2 catalysts

AIChE Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1797-1809

  Su, Junjie ^a   Mao, Wei ^a   Xu, Xin Chao ^a   Yang, Zhen ^a   Li, Honglin ^a   Xu, Jing ^a   Han, Yi Fan ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bimetallic CoCu catalysts; Higher alcohol synthesis; Intrinsic kinetics; Surface alloy; Syngas

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CATALYSTS; KINETICS; REACTION KINETICS; SYNTHESIS GAS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CO-CU CATALYSTS; HIGHER ALCOHOL SYNTHESIS; INTRINSIC KINETICS; SURFACE ALLOYS; SYN-GAS;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84897960051     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.14354     Document Type: Article

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