A molecular simulation-based method for the estimation of activity coefficients for alkane solutions

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3247-3255

  Kontogeorgis, Georgios M ^a   Voutsas, Epaminondas C ^a   Tassios, Dimitrios P ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; ALKANE SOLUTIONS; FREE VOLUME; MOLECULAR SIMULATION;

PARAFFINS;

EID: 0030158143     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(95)00400-9     Document Type: Article

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