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Preparation of High-Strength Gasified Coke Used for DRI from Low Rank Coal
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The pyrolysis characteristics and kinetics of two Chinese low-rank coal samples have been studied through thermogravimetric technique and mathematical modeling. Applicability of three kinetic models, viz. the ...
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The catalytic performance of Co-Mo-Ce-K/γ-Al2O3 catalyst for the shift reaction of CO in coke oven gas is investigated using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and temperature-programmed reduction (TPR). The results indicat...
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The catalytic effect of both oxygen-bearing functional group and ash in carbonaceous catalyst on CH4-CO2 reforming
A kind of new catalyst—carbonaceous catalyst—for CH4-CO2 reformation has been developed in our laboratory. The effect of both oxygen-bearing functional group such as phenolic hydroxyl, carbonyl, carboxyl, and lac...
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To extract and restructure information in XML documents, various query languages have been proposed in the past decade. These languages take navigational or pattern-based approach to data extraction and often ...
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