Design method for kinetically controlled, staged reactive distillation columns

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2821-2834

  Okasinski, Matthew J ^a   Doherty, Michael F ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts at Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; METHANOL; OLEFINS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; REACTION KINETICS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DAMKOHLER NUMBER; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; LIQUID HOLDUP; METATHESIS; PENTENE;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

DESIGN; DISTILLATION COLUMN; REACTION;

EID: 0032124931     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9708788     Document Type: Article

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