Are thermally coupled distillation columns always thermodynamically more efficient for ternary distillations?

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3444-3454

  Agrawal, Rakesh ^a   Fidkowski, Zbigniew T ^a  

^a AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

TERNARY DISTILLATION; THERMODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

DISTILLATION; SEPARATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0032144956     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie980062m     Document Type: Article

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