Predictive UNIQUAC: A new model for the description of multiphase solid-liquid equilibria in complex hydrocarbon mixtures

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 4870-4875

  Coutinho, João A P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXTURES; PARAFFINS; PHASE COMPOSITION; SOLID SOLUTIONS;

PARAFFINIC SOLID SOLUTIONS;

PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

HYDROCARBON; PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYSTAL; ENERGY BALANCE; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PLOTS AND CURVES; SOLID STATE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0032469462     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie980340h     Document Type: Article

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