Reactors for hydroprocessing

Hydroprocessing of Heavy Oils and Residua

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 71-120

  Ancheyta, Jorge ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

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