Detrimental Influence of Excessive Fractionation on Reactive Distillation

AIChE Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 388-393

  Sneesby, Martin G ^a   Tadé, Moses O ^a   Datta, Ravindra ^a,b   Smith, Terence N ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION COLUMNS; ETHERS; FRACTIONATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

ETHYL BUTYL ETHER; METHYL BUTYL ETHER; REACTIVE DISTILLATION;

DISTILLATION;

DISTILLATION COLUMN; REACTION;

EID: 0032005590     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690440215     Document Type: Article

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