A robust method for predicting state profiles in a reactive distillation

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-88

  Tanskanen, Juha ^a   Pohjola, Veikko J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Homotopy continuation; Multicomponent azeotropic distillation; Process design; Reactive distillation

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

REACTIVE DISTILLATION;

DISTILLATION;

COMPUTER MODELING; DISTILLATION; REACTIVE SEPARATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; DISTILLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY;

EID: 0034599832     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-1354(00)00304-5     Document Type: Article

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