A Review on Minimum Energy Calculations for Ideal and Nonideal Distillations

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1003-1020

  Koehler, Juergen ^a   Poellmann, Peter ^b   Blass, Eckhart ^b  

^a SANOFI   (France)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION; ENERGY;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; MIXTURES; THERMODYNAMICS;

NONIDEAL DISTILLATION; REFLUX RATIO; UNDERWOOD EQUATION;

DISTILLATION;

EID: 0029278404     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie00043a001     Document Type: Article

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