Capacity and Efficiency of Reactive Distillation Bale Packing: Modeling and Experimental Validation

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 3821-3832

  Subawalla, Hoshang ^a,b   González, J Castor ^a,c   Seibert, A Frank ^a   Fair, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS INC   (United States)

^c PDVSA INTEVEP   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; CATALYSTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAFFINS; PRESSURE DROP;

BALE PACKING; CYCLOHEXANE; HEIGHT EQUIVALENT TO THEORETICAL PLATE (HETP); HEPTANE; METHYL ETHYL KETONE;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

DISTILLATION; PACKED COLUMN; PACKING;

EID: 0031226898     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie970050l     Document Type: Article

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