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In addition, this study examined the potential of this process to produce useful liquid and gaseous fuels. The effects of the oxidative pretreatment, on the sulfur removal and production of liquid and gaseous fuels, were also examined.","Finally, the heat and mass transfer phenomena were examined to determine the factors which control the overall rate of the process. This is important if the results obtained from the bench scale, batch reactor are to be used to predict the performance of a potential, industrial scale reactor.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:18:36Z (GMT). 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