Syngas production from palm kernel shell and polyethylene waste blend in fluidized bed catalytic steam co-gasification process

Energy

Volumn 75, Issue , 2014, Pages 40-44

  Moghadam, Reza Alipour ^a   Yusup, Suzana ^a   Uemura, Yoshimitsu ^a   Chin, Bridgid Lai Fui ^a   Lam, Hon Loong ^b   Al Shoaibi, Ahmed ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^c KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Biomass; Energy; Gasification; Hydrogen; Syngas

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; FEEDSTOCKS; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BED PROCESS; FLUIDIZED BEDS; FOSSIL FUEL DEPOSITS; GASIFICATION; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; POLYETHYLENES;

CATALYTIC STEAM GASIFICATIONS; ENERGY; ENERGY FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES; FOSSIL FUEL RESOURCES; OPTIMIZED CONDITIONS; SYN-GAS; TAGUCHI DESIGN OF EXPERIMENT; THERMO CHEMICAL PROCESS;

SYNTHESIS GAS;

CATALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GAS PRODUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; REACTION KINETICS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOCHEMISTRY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84908059815     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2014.04.062     Document Type: Article

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