Interaction of Separation and Reactive Stages on ETBE Reactive Distillation Columns

AIChE Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 646-653

  Bisowarno, Budi H ^a   Tian, Yu Chu ^a,b   Tadé, Moses O ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Design (process simulation); Process; Reactive distillation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; ETHERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; SEPARATION; VAPORS;

REACTOR-DISTILLATION PROCESSES; VAPOR-LIQUID EQUILIBRIUM;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

ETHER DERIVATIVE; ETHYL TERT BUTYL ETHER; TERT BUTYL ALCOHOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DESIGN; DISTILLATION COLUMN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; PERFORMANCE; REACTOR; SEPARATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DISTILLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; REACTIVE DISTILLATION; REACTOR DESIGN; VAPOR;

EID: 1642341269     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10058     Document Type: Article

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