This article describes the limitations and the environmental effects of fossil fuels have provided the drive to create replacement strategies, such as the utilization of renewable energy resources. Solar energy and related technologies are also among fast-growing renewable resources and...

In this paper, the pore network model to investigate the reaction-diffusion process in the hierarchically structured porous catalyst particle is extended to consider the phenomenon of deactivation by coking. In this framework, the interaction of internal particle pore structure and mass transfer...