autothermal en · ADJ
Etymology
From auto- + thermal.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) That is heated by the combustion of its own products
Methane autothermal reforming has been studied using comprehensive, detailed microkinetic mechanisms, and a hierarchically reduced rate expression has been derived without apriori assumptions.
2016, Marm Dixit, Renika Baruah, Dhrupad Parikh, Sudhanshu Sharma, Atul Bhargav, “Autothermal Reforming of Methane on Rhodium Catalysts: Microkinetic Analysis for Model Reduction”, in arXiv: