Studies of a membrane reactor: Esterification facilitated by pervaporation

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 51, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 4673-4679

  Feng, Xianshe ^a   Huang, Robert Y M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

esterification; Membrane reactor; parametric study; pervaporation

Indexed keywords

ESTERS; PERVAPORATION; REACTORS;

ESTERIFICATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANES; MODELS; PERVAPORATION; SIMULATION; WATER;

BATCH REACTOR; EQUILIBRIUM LIMITS; MEMBRANE REACTOR; PARAMETRIC STUDY; REACTION MIXTURE VOLUME; REACTION RATE;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EID: 0030251404     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(96)00316-8     Document Type: Article

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