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1 online resource (xvi, 112 pages) : illustrations |
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Springer theses |
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Springer theses.
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Catalytic Microreactors for Portable Power Generation; Supervisor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Experimental Setup; 3 Numerical Models; 4 Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Hetero-/Homogeneous Combustion of Lean Propane/Air Mixtures Over Platinum; 5 Experimental and Numerical Investigation of a Propane-Fueled, Catalytic, Mesoscale Combustor; 6 Hetero-/Homogeneous Combustion and Stability Maps in Methane-Fueled Catalytic Microreactors |
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7 Stability of Hetero-/Homogeneous Combustion in Propane- and Methane-Fueled Catalytic Microreactors: Channel Confinement and Molecular Transport Effects8 Numerical Investigation on the Start-Up of Methane-Fueled, Catalytic Microreactors; 9 Conclusions Summary: Outlook |
| Summary |
"Catalytic Microreactors for Portable Power Generation" addresses a problem of high relevance and increased complexity in energy technology. This thesis outlines an investigation into catalytic and gas-phase combustion characteristics in channel-flow, platinum-coated microreactors. The emphasis of the study is on microreactor/microturbine concepts for portable power generation and the fuels of interest are methane and propane. The author carefully describes numerical and experimental techniques, providing a new insight into the complex interactions between chemical kinetics and molecular transport processes, as well as giving the first detailed report of hetero-/homogeneous chemical reaction mechanisms for catalytic propane combustion. The outcome of this work will be widely applied to the industrial design of micro- and mesoscale combustors |
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Ph. D. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
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Microreactors.
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SCIENCE -- Chemistry -- Industrial & Technical.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Chemical & Biochemical.
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Chimie.
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Science des matériaux.
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Microreactors
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masters theses.
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dissertations.
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theses.
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doctoral dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783642176685 |
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3642176682 |
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