Process boundary approach to separations synthesis

AIChE Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1939-1952

  Pressly, Thomas G ^a   Ng, Ka M ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts at Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; AZEOTROPES; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; ETHANOL; EUTECTICS; METHANOL; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; REACTION KINETICS; WATER;

DECANTATION; PROPANOL; QUATERNARY MIXTURE; THERMODYNAMIC PROCESS BOUNDARY;

DISTILLATION;

EQUIPMENT; SEPARATION; SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS CONTROL; SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033200312     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690450911     Document Type: Article

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