Modeling the synthesis section of an industrial urea plant

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 249-260

  Hamidipour, Mohsen ^a   Mostoufi, Navid ^a   Sotudeh Gharebagh, Rahmat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Biuret; Heterogeneous reaction; Reactor modeling; Urea

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; DATA REDUCTION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FERTILIZERS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

BIURET; TANK REACTORS; UREA REACTOR;

UREA;

BIOREACTOR; STIRRED TANK; UREA;

EID: 14044250987     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2004.12.020     Document Type: Article

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