Optimal design of thermally coupled distillation columns

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 162-176

  Dünnebier, Guido ^a,b   Pantelides, Constantinos C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

THERMALLY COUPLED COLUMNS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; DISTILLATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; INDUSTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRODUCTIVITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0033031991     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9802919     Document Type: Article

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