Coal and biomass to liquid transportation fuels: Process synthesis and global optimization strategies

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 53, Issue 44, 2014, Pages 17002-17025

  Niziolek, Alexander M ^a   Onel, Onur ^a   Elia, Josephine A ^a   Baliban, Richard C ^a   Xiao, Xin ^b   Floudas, Christodoulos A ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COAL; COAL TRANSPORTATION; ECONOMICS; FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; GASOLINE; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; LIQUIDS; METHANOL; OLEFINS; SYNTHESIS GAS; TOPOLOGY;

BIOMASS TO LIQUID; DETERMINISTIC GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; ECONOMIES OF SCALE; METHANOL FORMATIONS; OPTIMAL TOPOLOGIES; OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY; REFINERY CAPACITY; THERMOCHEMICAL CONVERSION;

COAL INDUSTRY;

EID: 84909594881     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie500505h     Document Type: Article

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