Nonequilibrium modeling of reactive distillation: A dusty fluid model for heterogeneously catalyzed processes

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1596-1607

  Higler, Arnoud ^a   Krishna, R ^b   Taylor, Ross ^c  

^a Clarkson University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; ETHERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLUIDS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DUSTY FLUID MODEL; HETEROGENEOUSLY CATALYZED PROCESSES; METHYL TERBUTYL ETHER; NONEQUILIBRIUM MODELING; REACTIVE DISTILLATION; TERTAMYL METHYL ETHER;

DISTILLATION;

DISTILLATION; MASS TRANSFER; REACTIVE SEPARATION;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; DIFFUSION; DISTILLATION; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; STEADY STATE;

EID: 0034099585     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie990547q     Document Type: Article

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