Vapor-phase SMB adsorptive separation of linear/nonlinear paraffins

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2313-2321

  Mazzotti, Marco ^a,b   Baciocchi, Renato ^a   Storti, Giuseppe ^a,c   Morbidelli, Massimo ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BINARY MIXTURES; NAPHTHAS; PARAFFINS;

VAPOR PHASE SIMULATED MOVING BED SEPARATION;

SEPARATION;

ADSORPTION; SEPARATION-GAS/GAS;

EID: 0030199193     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie950766l     Document Type: Article

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