Design guidelines for solid-catalyzed reactive distillation systems

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3696-3709

  Subawalla, Hoshang ^a,b   Fair, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Air Products and Chemicals Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZEOTROPES; CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; ETHERS; HYDRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REACTION KINETICS; THERMODYNAMICS; VAPORIZATION;

ETHERIFICATION; REFLUX RATIO; SOLID CATALYZED DISTILLATION SYSTEMS;

DISTILLATION;

DESIGN; DISTILLATION COLUMN; REACTIVE SEPARATION;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DISTILLATION; HYDRATION; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; PURIFICATION; SIMULATION; SOLID; THERMODYNAMICS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 0033494734     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie990008l     Document Type: Article

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