CRACKER - A PC based simulator for industrial cracking furnaces

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 2-7, 2000, Pages 1523-1528

  Joo, Eunjung ^c   Lee, Kihong ^b   Lee, Moonyong ^b   Park, Sunwon ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Feed characterization; Naphtha thermal cracking furnace; PC based simulator; Principal component analysis; Rigorous furnace model

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); ETHYLENE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INDUSTRIAL FURNACES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAPHTHAS; PETROCHEMICAL PLANTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FEED CHARACTERIZATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIGOROUS FURNACE MODEL; THERMAL CRACKING FURNACE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; MICROCOMPUTER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

EID: 0034661314     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-1354(00)00558-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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