Energy considerations for plasma-assisted N-fixation reactions

Processes

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 694-710

  Anastasopoulou, Aikaterini ^a   Wang, Qi ^a   Hessel, Volker ^a   Lang, Juergen ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b EVONIK INDUSTRIES AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Holistic process design; Plasma; Process intensification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926409851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22279717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/pr2040694     Document Type: Review

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