Advanced Cracking Reactor technology

The search continues for better and more economical processes for the production of ethylene. Those processes include catalytic thermal cracking, methanol to ethylene, oxidative coupling of methane, advanced cracking technology, adiabatic cracking reactor, fluidized bed cracking, membrane reactor, oxydehy-drogenation, ethanol to ethylene, propylene disproportionation, and coal to ethylene. Much work is still needed before any such process can compete with current processes. 

Kirkbir, F. Kisakurek, B. Dynamic analysis of an ethane cracking reactor. Chemical Reactor Design and Technology, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Chemical Reactor Design and Technology de Lasa, H.I., Ed. Martinus Nijhoff Dordrecht, 1986 779-794. 

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