Status of research and challenges in converting natural gas

Small-Scale Gas to Liquid Fuel Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 3-49

  Abate, Salvatore ^a   Centi, Gabriele ^a   Perathoner, Siglinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

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EID: 84944752861     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b18075     Document Type: Chapter

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