Fatty acid esterification by reactive distillation. Part 1: Equilibrium-based design

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 58, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 3159-3174

  Omota, Florin ^a   Dimian, Alexandre C ^a   Bliek, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conceptual design; Distillation; Modelling; Multiphase reactions; Phase equilibria; Reactive distillation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTILLATION; ESTERIFICATION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMODYNAMICS;

REACTIVE DISTILLATION (RD);

FATTY ACIDS;

DESIGN; DISTILLATION; EQUILIBRIUM; FATTY ACID; MULTIPHASE FLOW; REACTOR;

EID: 0038033773     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(03)00165-9     Document Type: Article

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