Characterization of activated carbon for carbon laden flows in a solar reactor

ASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, AJTEC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ozalp, Nesrin ^a   Shilapuram, Vidyasagar ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Carbon hydrogen reaction; Carbon feeding; Kinetics; Solar cracking; Thermo gravimetric analysis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ENZYME KINETICS; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; HYDROGEN; METHANE; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

CARBON - HYDROGEN REACTIONS; CARBON FEEDING; CATALYTIC METHANE DECOMPOSITIONS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE; OPTIMAL OPERATING CONDITIONS; SOLAR CRACKINGS; SURFACE AREA MEASUREMENT; THERMO-GRAVIMETRIC EXPERIMENTS;

THERMAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 85087244508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ajtec2011-44381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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