Operation of homogeneous azeotropic distillation column sequences

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 4512-4534

  Ulrich, Jan ^a,b   Morari, Manfred ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIXTURES; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TERNARY SYSTEMS;

TERNARY FEED;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

2 PROPANOL; METHANOL;

CONTROL SYSTEM; DISTILLATION COLUMN; PROCESS CONTROL; SEPARATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISTILLATION; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RECYCLING; WASTE;

EID: 0141455070     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie020930m     Document Type: Article

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