Industrial-scale simulation of proposed process for synthesizing ethyl tert-butyl ether from bioethanol

Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 539-543

  Quitain, Armando ^a   Itoh, Hajime ^a   Goto, Shigeo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioethanol; Ethyl tert Butyl Ether; Extraction; Reactive Distillation; Simulation; tert Butyl Alcohol

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTILLATION; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; ETHANOL; EXTRACTION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

BIOETHANOL; ETHYL TERTBUTYL ETHER; SOFTWARE PACKAGE ASPEN PLUS; TERTBUTYL ALCOHOL;

ETHERS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032701540     PISSN: 00219592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1252/jcej.32.539     Document Type: Article

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