Computing all homogeneous and heterogeneous azeotropes in multicomponent mixtures

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 4901-4912

  Wasylkiewicz, Stanislaw K ^a,b   Doherty, Michael F ^a   Malone, Michael F ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b AEA Technology Engineering Software   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BENZENE; CYCLOHEXANE; PROPANOL; TOLUENE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; LIQUID; MODEL; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0033237848     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie990214t     Document Type: Article

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