Industrial experience in the scale-up of reactive distillation with examples from C4-chemistry

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1525-1530

  Beckmann, Andreas ^a   Nierlich, Franz ^a   Pöpken, Tim ^b   Reusch, Dieter ^b   Von Scala, Claudia ^c   Tuchlenski, Axel ^b  

^a Oxeno Olefinchemie GmbH   (Germany)

^b EVONIK INDUSTRIES AG   (Germany)

^c SULZER CHEMTECH LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ion exchange; Kinetics; Multiphase reactors; Reactive distillation; Scale up; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION; DISTILLATION; MASS TRANSFER; PILOT PLANTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

REACTIVE DISTILLATION;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

CRACKING; DISTILLATION; ION EXCHANGE; KINETICS; LIQUID-LIQUID SEPARATION; REACTIVE SEPARATION;

EID: 0037095475     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(02)00025-8     Document Type: Article

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