Steady-state analysis of an industrial reactive distillation column

Separation and Purification Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 251-260

  Bezzo, Fabrizio ^a   Bertucco, Alberto ^a   Forlin, Anna ^b   Barolo, Massimiliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b ENI S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

Industrial plant; Process simulation; Propylene oxide; Reactive distillation; Separation with reaction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROLYTES; HYDRATED LIME; HYDROLYSIS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OLEFINS; SEPARATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

PROPYLENE GLYCOL; PROPYLENE OXIDE; SALTING-OUT EFFECTS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

DISTILLATION COLUMN;

EID: 0033538685     PISSN: 13835866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5866(99)00016-7     Document Type: Article

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