Molecular solvent design and near critical solvents optimization with ECOFAC

Latin American Applied Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 269-273

  Cismondi, M ^a   Diaz, M S ^a   Espinosa, S ^a   Brignole, E A ^a  

^a PLAPIQUI UNS CONICET   (Argentina)

Author keywords

ECOFAC; Molecular Design; Separation Processes; Solvents; Supercritical

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISTILLATION; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; SOLVENTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

MOLECULAR DESIGN;

SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION;

EID: 0037484544     PISSN: 03270793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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