A new retrofit design methodology for identifying, developing, and evaluating retrofit projects for cost-efficiency improvements in continuous chemical processes

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1842-1853

  Uerdingen, Eric ^a   Fischer, Ulrich ^a   Gani, Rafiqul ^b   Hungerbühler, Konrad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS; OPTIMIZATION;

BASE CASE ANALYSIS; CONTINUOUS CHEMICAL PROCESS; ECONOMIC PROFITABILITY; RETROFIT DESIGN;

RETROFITTING;

COST REDUCTION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISTILLATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROFIT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 14844341764     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie049065r     Document Type: Article

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