Systematic design of blanket wash solvents with recovery considerations

Advances in Environmental Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 239-249

  Sinha, Manish ^a   Achenie, Luke E K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Blanket wash; Computer aided molecular design; Computer aided product design; MINLP; Optimization; Solvent design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012929559     PISSN: 10930191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1093-0191(00)00058-7     Document Type: Article

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