Homogeneous Azeotropic Distillation. 2. Design Procedure for Sequences of Columns

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 998-1008

  Castillo, Francisco J L ^a   Thong, Dennis Y C ^a   Towler, Gavin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZEOTROPES; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; PHASE COMPOSITION;

SINGLE FEED COLUMNS;

DISTILLATION;

COLUMN; DESIGN; DISTILLATION;

EID: 0032029537     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9704814     Document Type: Article

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