A Rigorous Mathematical Proof of the Area Method for Phase Stability

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1483-1489

  Elhassan, Ahmed E ^a   Tsvetkov, Stefan G ^b   Craven, Robert J B ^a   Stateva, Roumiana P ^b   Wakeham, William A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AREA METHOD; PHASE STABILITY;

PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

EID: 0032046971     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie970265v     Document Type: Article

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