The influence of mass transfer and mixing on the performance of a tray column for reactive distillation

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 13-14, 1999, Pages 2873-2881

  Higler, A P ^a,b   Taylor, R ^a   Krishna, R ^b  

^a Clarkson University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Energy balance; Ethylene glycol; Maxwell Stefan equations; Multiple steady states; Reactive distillation; Tray design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GLYCOLS; HYDRATION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; PERFORMANCE; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

ENERGY BALANCE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; MAXWELL-STEFAN EQUATIONS; MULTIPLE STEADY STATES; REACTIVE DISTILLATION; TRAY COLUMN;

DISTILLATION;

DISTILLATION; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING; TRAY;

EID: 0033166830     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(98)00317-0     Document Type: Article

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