Locating all heterogeneous and reactive azeotropes in multicomponent mixtures

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1576-1595

  Harding, Stephen T ^a   Floudas, Christodoulos A ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOILING LIQUIDS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENT EQUATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS AZEOTROPES; MULTICOMPONENT MIXTURES; REACTIVE AZEOTROPES;

AZEOTROPES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034096248     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie990527o     Document Type: Article

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